{"id":10335,"date":"2017-03-30T17:51:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T15:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=10335"},"modified":"2017-03-30T18:09:28","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T16:09:28","slug":"fawn-lilies-and-camas-in-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=10335","title":{"rendered":"Fawn lilies and Camas in Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"

My first day in Victoria and Vancouver Island, BC was a mixed one. As this was probably my only chance I decided to go to the Butchart Gardens, a one hour bus ride outside of Victoria, and rated by some as one of the finest gardens in the world. I didn’t have high expectations, but was disappointed that there were almost no plant labels (apart from the rose collection) and otherwise very few native plants as far as I could see…
\nThe botanical highlight was walking back to my lovely Airbnb room along the 30 min long Songhees coastal path. A interpretive sign \u00a0informed of the rare Garry oak (Quercus garryana<\/em>) ecosystem in which both camas (Camassia<\/em>), an important Native American food plant, and Fawn lily (Erythronium oregonum<\/em>) grew alongside Dodecatheon<\/em> (shooting stars)! A couple of minutes later I saw many fawn lilies in the woods and one emerging flower stalk of Camassia <\/em>(both leichtlinii <\/em>and quamash\u00a0<\/em>grow here)!
\nAlmost exactly a year ago, I was on the otherside of the Pacific witnessing the mass flowering of katakuri (Erythronium japonicum<\/em>) in Japan: \u00a0http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=9121<\/p>\n