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Gone Wild

February 11, 2008 by Andrea Bellamy 2 Comments

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I met Hartley and Anne-Marie (above) at the farmer’s market last year, because, well, they were selling plants – need I say more?

Early in the spring, there are always more vendors selling plants than fresh produce. Mostly it’s pretty basic: pots of herbs, annuals and a few cottagey perennials. But there’s also Otto with his Japanese maples, someone who sells bonsai, and another booth that focuses on water plants.

Hartley and Anne-Marie’s sign read, “Gone Wild: native ornamental plants for the urban habitat.” I think I probably squealed when I saw it.

It’s exciting because it’s tough to find retail sources for native plants here in Vancouver. Many carry some of the more marketable plants like ferns or the more ornamental shrubs, but just try to find Salmonberry (Rubus spectabilis) or Vanilla leaf (Achyls triphylla) at your local nursery!

Hartley happens to live just around the corner from me, so, yesterday, on the way back from the greenhouse, he kindly dropped off a snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus) and an evergreen huckleberry (Vaccinium ovatum), which I’ll add to my “mostly-native” plant bed. (Despite James’ plea for me not to plant snowberry, it’s not an invasive plant here – so I’m planting it anyway!).

Gone Wild carries a great selection of native and ornamental trees, ferns, perennials, shrubs, and groundcovers. You’ll find them at the farmer’s market come April – or contact Gone Wild directly.

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Filed Under: Green Gardening & Living, Shrubs & Trees Tagged With: gardening, gone wild, native plants, natives, Sustainability

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  1. germi says

    February 14, 2008 at 11:47 am

    TAG!
    You’re it!
    Tell us all 7 random facts about yourself, then pass it along…
    (If you want to play, that is – a mommy – to – be can be excused from anything!)

  2. Andrea Bellamy says

    February 14, 2008 at 9:54 pm

    You got me. Okay, I’ll play. After I get back from our little weekend getaway.

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