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Canada's Secret Garden: Summerland

Here's a video of my trip to Summerland Ornamental Gardens in the Okanagan Valley. This public garden has been built and tended over the course of a century, but is still basically unknown outside of the local community. In this tour, I'll talk to Bonnie and Connie, volunteer directors of the Friends of the Garden, about the joys and challenges of maintaining this unique garden in an unforgettable setting. Wherever you are, you're quite welcome to donate to help this garden continue it's education efforts: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/w/4... For the dedicated rose tour, here's the link:    • Rose Tour: Austin & Canadian Heritage Roses   I couldn't fit in all of the footage I filmed on the tour: some was cut for audio or video quality, and some just to pare the final video down to a reasonable length & flow. Some other interesting notes (in no particular order): this has been an unusually wet spring, and it felt a bit weird talking about the "desert" climate of the Okanagan while dressed in rain gear and walking around quite a lush garden! You might have assumed from the appearance of the place that there are sprinklers everywhere to keep it so green. Not so. Bonnie mentioned to me that the great lawn would normally be quite brown by late June - it's also quite a diverse blend of grasses, clover and other creeping covers. The watering around the entire site is carefully managed into 12 "zones" of mainly drip irrigation, each zone timed to match the irrigation needs of the plants. The total scale of the organization was impressive to me: Bonnie and Connie let me know that they have around 65 volunteers "with their hands in the soil" and several others who perform administrative work for the organization. They employ two paid staff gardeners with a 3rd seasonal gardener in the spring. As mentioned, this is primarily funded through donations, but they also raise money through a couple of plant sales each year - the larger spring plant sale, and then a smaller offering in the fall. They use the greenhouses and resources of the adjoined research site to grow plants for the sales as well as to raise the annuals and perennials they're adding to the gardens. For more information on visiting and garden events, here's the main website link: https://summerlandgardens.org/ If you find these videos useful, here are a few things you can do to help us out: Send a tip: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/fvrosefarm Have a look at our Amazon shop: https://www.amazon.com/shop/fraserval... Drop us a "Like" on our Facebook business page:   / fraservalleyrosefarm   Leave a review of our farm on Google: https://g.page/r/Cfi8qXv8QReZEBE/review