As I mentioned in a blog post (this one) I was recently up in Vancouver, BC, on a garden tour. All told I visited 17 gardens as part of the event, 1 bonus garden of a friend, and 3 nurseries. I took several hundred photos (I know, it's a problem, I'm trying to cut down). When one takes such a deep dive into garden visits a few themes rise to the top, for me one of them was greenhouses. I saw a lot of greenhouses!
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This is the greenhouse at Southlands Nursery.
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Or rather the greenhouse at Southlands Nursery when I visited back in 2010 and the greenhouse was closed. This time it was open and I wandered through but didn't take a greenhouse shot! Oh well, you get the idea.![]()
Clare Saadien's West Vancouver garden and greenhouse.
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The greenhouse at Margot Ketchum's.
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Okay this was a kid's playhouse in the garden of Elise Girardin, but the lifted wall was made of corrugated plastic so it could be used as a greenhouse...
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And finally the greenhouse (one of two actually) in my friend Todd Holloway's garden.
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This one was at Art's Nursery. Doesn't everyone need a cactarium? (I know I do).![]()
This attractive greenhouse addition was in the garden of Thomas Hobbs and Brent Beattie, the owners of Southlands Nursery (which we also visited).
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I didn't get a great outside shot of this greenhouse, but check out those deep benches for sinking pots. There was such a dreamy collection of alpine plants in this garden belonging to David and Windy Sellars.
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Joan Bentley's garden was the location of this greenhouse.
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This greenhouse (in Rosie Daykin's garden) was pristine. I do hope it sees actual use.
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This interesting set-up was in the garden of Liz Haan. The wall on the right is the back of the garage, and behind the backwall (straight ahead) was a set of stairs leading up to additional container space on top of the garage.
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This one was in Pam Frost's garden, so charming!
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Yep, that's a greenhouse on the roof. Everything about this garden belonging to Bill Walters was over the top.
These aren't really typical garden greenhouses, they were poly tunnels in Gwen and Paul Odermatt's private garden (she has a small nursery on the side) but I think they merit inclusion.
The next stop, Diana Hume's, brought a whole mix of great garden working spaces, including this greenhouse.
I took many more photos of these structures and their garden surrounds, but rather than share more here I decided to keep them with their individual gardens, so you can see them in place. For this post I thought it would be interesting to just focus on the different greenhouse styles I encountered over the weekend. Hope you enjoyed!
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