Gardeners in the Meadows

A great tour around Paradise Meadows with the Vancouver Island Master Gardeners - we took about 3 hours to cover the 3.8 km boardwalk loop which is about the right pace for looking at plants! Notable right now are subalpine daisy, Sitka burnet, Indian hellebore, bracted lousewort & sickletop lousewort.


The outing was a chance to try the new Paradise Meadows interpretive map & the on-line flower identification guide. Both are works in progress, being developed thanks to funding received from Mountain Equipment Co-op, to develop a script & map to guide interpretive nature walks. The information will be adapted for electronic media as well as eventually made available in a print form.

Deer-cabbage (Fauria crista-galli)

White clustered flowers, rounded leaves

 Sticky false asphodel (Tofieldia glutinosa)

White clustered flowers, long thin leaves

Many white clustered blooms in the meadows right now are a challenge to identify, and the flower guide should be helpful to sort them out. Click here to start exploring the guide for flowers - it will continue to evolve, but feedback is welcome in the meantime!

Indian hellebore (Veratrum viride)

Greenish clustered flowers, tall, lily-like leaves