Thirsty little Calliope Hummingbird
Red Baneberry / Actaea rubra, red berries
Common (Annual) Sowthistle / Sonchus oleraceus
Osprey family
One of my forest finds
Prairie Gentian / Gentiana affinis
Three-toed Woodpecker
Time to relax
View looking west towards the Rockies
Heritage Peony gone to seed
Spotted Knapweed - PROHIBITED NOXIOUS
Main street, Heritage Park
Skipper on Goldenrod
A breathtaking Lily
Mating Damselflies with bokeh
Weeping in the forest
On a day of heavy rain
Yellow Clematis / Clematis tangutica
Tiny visitor
Common Hemp-nettle / Galeopsis tetrahit
Sainfoin / Onobrychis viciifolia Scop.
Wing-flapping practice
Peony seedpods
Unidentified fungus
Fluffed up Pine Siskin
Down by the pond
Barely visible
Too hard to resist
Calliope Hummingbird
After the rain
Pretty shade of Paintbrush
The stare
Limber Pine on Timber Ridge
European Skipper on Red Clover
Droplets of sap on Limber Pine cones
Gairdner’s Yampah (Yampa) / Perideridia gairdneri,…
Surprised to see us
A view from Timber Ridge Conservation Area
The art of nature - Lecidea tessellata
Yesterday's highlight : )
Thank goodness for the Kubota
Exploring Timber Ridge, Porcupine Hills
"Eyebrows" to match the Canola bokeh
Purplish Fritillary / Boloria chariclea
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Buddha surveying the Peony garden


"In 1989, the book "In A Canadian Garden" was written by Nicole Eaton and Hilary Weston. They chose to include Mary Dover's (David Dover's mother's) garden. They wrote: "This garden deserves particular mention here because, to more traditional gardeners, it may not seem at first glance to be a garden at all. Mary cherishes the wilderness of the landscape in which she lives, and she has chosen to "edit" it rather than tame it. With the exception of one extravagant planting of peonies, she has added only small traces of herself - a fruit tree here, a clump of flowers there - to the land. Among other plants, she brought in "a triple line of 100 peonies."
These heritage peonies have happily seeded over the past decades and now number nearly 300 plants. They thrive on the land in the Canadian Foothills and produce offspring each Spring as the snow melts and the ground thaws.
There is a growing interest in the Dover Gardens in Millarville, Alberta and Mary's son (David) and his wife (Frances) are working to maintain that wildness "edited" not tamed. At a time when development attempts to move into the "emerald valley", Dover Gardens is being seen increasingly as an oasis, providing tranquility to the land and for its visitors.
Today, the 300 plants range from single blooms, like Scarlet O'Hara, to the semi-doubles, such as Buckeye Belle, to the double blooms in soft pink, including Pink Chiffon, to the Japanese orchid pink petals, with narrow shredded darker pink petals of the peony identified as Do Tell. This year, several of the majestic deep red single blooms in plants grew taller than the pink varieties, with the stems stretching out and upward." From a reprint from the Canadian Peony Society • November 2014: Peonies Bring Majesty to the Canadian Foothills, by Frances Jackson Dover.
This photo shows one of the Peony flower beds, with a stone statue of Buddha that travelled here from the Far East. Unfortunately, they bloomed a couple of weeks early this year, and all the flowers had gone to seed by the time of our visit on 7 August 2015.
For more information about the wonderful day we spent with Frances and David Dover (his mother was Mary Dover), their daughter Carolyn and her husband Clair, check the Hummingbird photo I posted today, at the following link.
flic.kr/p/xbAikB
These heritage peonies have happily seeded over the past decades and now number nearly 300 plants. They thrive on the land in the Canadian Foothills and produce offspring each Spring as the snow melts and the ground thaws.
There is a growing interest in the Dover Gardens in Millarville, Alberta and Mary's son (David) and his wife (Frances) are working to maintain that wildness "edited" not tamed. At a time when development attempts to move into the "emerald valley", Dover Gardens is being seen increasingly as an oasis, providing tranquility to the land and for its visitors.
Today, the 300 plants range from single blooms, like Scarlet O'Hara, to the semi-doubles, such as Buckeye Belle, to the double blooms in soft pink, including Pink Chiffon, to the Japanese orchid pink petals, with narrow shredded darker pink petals of the peony identified as Do Tell. This year, several of the majestic deep red single blooms in plants grew taller than the pink varieties, with the stems stretching out and upward." From a reprint from the Canadian Peony Society • November 2014: Peonies Bring Majesty to the Canadian Foothills, by Frances Jackson Dover.
This photo shows one of the Peony flower beds, with a stone statue of Buddha that travelled here from the Far East. Unfortunately, they bloomed a couple of weeks early this year, and all the flowers had gone to seed by the time of our visit on 7 August 2015.
For more information about the wonderful day we spent with Frances and David Dover (his mother was Mary Dover), their daughter Carolyn and her husband Clair, check the Hummingbird photo I posted today, at the following link.
flic.kr/p/xbAikB
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