Garden Centres
High Mountain Garden
About High Mountain Garden
South Canoe climbs away from the flats into a fold of farms and acreages, and gardening at that elevation is a different proposition from gardening down beside the bay. Frost tends to arrive earlier on the slopes and leave later, and the growing window narrows accordingly. High Mountain Garden works from 1650 51 Street Northeast in that upper country.
Garden operations in a region like the Shuswap run on the calendar rather than the clock. Spring brings seedlings, soil and the annual rush to get beds turned over; midsummer shifts toward watering, feeding and replacing whatever did not take; and autumn turns to bulbs, cleanup and putting the ground to bed before the cold. What any one place has on hand changes from week to week, so ask what is available now rather than assuming, and ask what was started nearby as against trucked in, since plants raised in the same climate tend to transplant with less sulking. Advice is part of why you make the trip: soil, exposure and drainage decide more outcomes than a plant tag ever will.
Phone 250-832-0203 before making the drive, particularly in the shoulder seasons when a growing operation follows daylight and weather more than a fixed routine, or start at highmountaingarden.ca. The trip up from the city is short by regional standards, though anyone hauling soil, stone or a load of plants should think about vehicle space first. Gardeners down on the valley floor face a hotter, drier summer than the slopes do, so say where your beds actually sit when you ask for a recommendation.
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In the South Canoe neighbourhood of Salmon Arm.
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