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Today ’s garden photos do from our Quaker Cherry Ong . She writes ,

“ A lot of my gardening supporter are pining for summertime so I reckon I would share photos of a garden we serendipitously discovered on our way back from a route trip last summertime .

The garden is located in Revelstoke , British Columbia , Canada and is call Gardens at the Gallery . The xeriscape garden was create in 2015 by the Revelstoke Visual Arts Society , North Columbia Environmental Society and Revestoke Local Food Initiative . conception invention is by Fraser Blyth and landscape design is by Gaila Hemphill .

There is an eatable garden next to the xeriscape garden . It is the Revelstoke Visual Arts Centre Community Garden , a veggie and fruit tree garden planted , cared for and harvested by member of the Revelstoke Local Food Initiative . The food in this garden feed many families in Revelstoke as well as their local solid food camber .

I hope you are all hanging in there till planting season returns . I do it I am . ”

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The red flowers of Sedum spurium (Dragon’s blood stonecrop, Zones 3 – 8) seen through the foliage and flowers of Helictotrichon sempervirens (blue oat grass, Zones 4 - 8).

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Layers of color provided bySedum repestre‘Angelina’ (Angelina stonecrop, Zones 3 – 11),Echinacea purpurea‘Magnus’ (purple coneflower, Zones 3 – 8), andDianthus gratianopolitanus‘Firewitch’ (Cheddar pink, Zones 4 – 8).

A sculpture called “Blowin’ in the Wind’ by artist John McKinnon is backed byLavandula angustifolia‘Hidcote’ (English lavender, zones 5 – 8),Liatris spicata‘Kobold’ (blazing star, zones 3 – 8),Achillea‘Moonshine’ (yarrow, zones 3 – 8), andSedum repestre‘Angelina’.

Another view of the sculpture, withAchillea‘Moonshine’ (yarrow, zones 3 – 8) in the foreground.

The red flowers ofSedum spurium(Dragon’s blood stonecrop, Zones 3 – 8) backed up by purpleLavandula angustifolia‘Hidcote’ (English lavender, Zones 5 – 8),Liatris spicata‘Kobold’ (blazing star, Zones 3 – 8) and a dark leavedPhysocarpus opulifolius(ninebark, Zones 2 – 8).