Yesterday, a group of us went south of Calgary to near Nanton, to visit the old homestead belonging to Jim Coutts. He is trying to convert his land back to its original, natural grassland, almost literally one little grass "plug" at a time. He has the most amazing garden, including brilliantly coloured flowersbeds and an area that grows a lot of different native grasses. This one flower caught my attention, contrasting beautifully with the background colour.
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A whole row of these gorgeous, tall Sunflowers was growing in the wonderful homestead garden owned by Jim Coutts. We were lucky enough to have the chance to visit this place, south of the city near Nanton, last August. So many amazing plants - my favourites are always the Poppies.
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I am once again back to grabbing a few photos from my archives. If I wrote a description under a previously posted photo, I will add it under these latest uploads.
"On 10 August 2008, a group of us went south of Calgary to near Nanton, to visit the old homestead belonging to the late Jim Coutts. He is trying to convert his land back to its original, natural grassland, almost literally one little grass "plug" at a time. He has the most amazing garden, including brilliantly coloured flowersbeds and an area that grows a lot of different native grasses. This is just one tiny area of his garden, looking out towards the distant Rocky Mountains. I LOVE Poppies, so I was in seventh heaven!
Interesting to note that Jim used to be the former principal secretary of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
Up to his death on December 31, 2013, Jim tried to convert his land back to its original, natural grassland, almost literally one little grass "plug" at a time. This is the most amazing garden, including brilliantly coloured flowerbeds, a huge Poppy garden, and an area that grows a lot of different native grasses."
www.ulethbridge.ca/unews/article/university-saddened-pass...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Coutts"
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Not sure what plant this is, but I noticed it in the beautiful homestead gardens belonging to Jim Coutts when we were lucky enough to visit him again this year, on August 27th. Jim lives just north east of Nanton, which is south of Calgary. Thanks to Sean Rangel for the ID, Verbena bonariensis.
Thought I'd post my "daily three" (to hang on to the remaining glimmer of self-discipline in my life, LOL!), to take a break after talking to my good friend, Diana, in England, for an hour, discussing all sorts of things in connection with the death of my brother and some of the things that need to be seen to. Diana, along with other of my old friends - Linda, Anne and Eric, who also live in Birmingham - are being just unbelievably supportive and helpful at this difficult, complicated time. Diana, I can never thank you enough for everything you have already done and for all the ideas and suggestions that you talked with me about this afternoon, over the phone. Now I need to take a little break to clear my head slightly before thinking of what to write in various important and very urgent e-mails, so here I am, on Flickr, where I know I can collapse, however briefly, surrounded by the caring of so many friends : ) My deepest thanks to you all.
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I love poppies at all stages and so this was where I headed off to straight away on Friday, when several of us went south of the city to Jim Coutts' homestead, just north east of Nanton. I was thrilled to bits when I noticed the distant sea of red and knew that Jim's wonderful Poppy garden was still in bloom. Our annual trip to see his gardens and homestead was in September last year - and there wasn't a single petal left on any Poppy, which was so disappointing. Interesting to note that Jim used to be the former principal secretary of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. After visitng Jim and being shown around his incredibly beautiful homestead, we drove west through William's Coulee to botanize a hilltop of virgin prairie grassland belonging to Rob Blades (about 5 acres; 1 mi W of Meridian Rd, on Connemara Rd) and then to botanize some prairie grassland belonging to Howard Hornecker. Thanks, Jim, Rob and Howard for giving us these wonderful opportunities! And thanks so much, Laura, for driving!
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