Fleurs de Villes WONDER…

24 Saturday Jan 2026

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Fleurs de Villes WONDER… what a delight;-)…

since January 15th I have done three volunteer shifts, visited four times with friends, and once on my own…

every time I went through the displays, I spotted more interesting details;-)…

we are so blessed to be one of the locations that Fleurs de Villes chooses to display at…

each year has been different than the previous one… it is also such a great opportunity for our truly talented Manitoba artists…

it was interesting to hear what visitors enjoyed the most on their visits, and how many felt it was nearly impossible to pick a favourite, as they were all special…

hope that we get the opportunity again next year…

I felt connected to three pieces immediately and by the end of my eight visits, I had voted for all of the three…

truly a gift;-)…

enamoured…

22 Thursday Jan 2026

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last week, when I visited Fleurs de Villes WONDER at The Leaf, for the first time, I was completely enamoured with the Aurora Borealis display…

it was filled with some of my favourite colours and just touched me immediately…

I was on a volunteer shift and got to see it in daylight (I started at 3, ended at 6), and under the lights…

since then I’ve watched a video about how it was made and learned more about it…

I also put up a photo on IG and got a note from Christine at Silver Heights Florist, the artist who designed and carried out this piece with assistance from others, advising she had a bouquet for me…

I picked it up yesterday and it has all the colours of the original display in it…

what a treat;-)…

if you have a chance you really should go and check out WONDER before it leaves…

laughs…

21 Wednesday Jan 2026

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had a wonderful time today with friends at The Leaf…

we travelled together and had a lot of laughs in the process, then checked out all of the displays, and had one of the volunteers take our photo…

ended the day with a lovely lunch and visit at Gather;-)…

dropped off one of us and had a short visit…

what a fun time we had;-)…

WONDER…

20 Tuesday Jan 2026

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had a lovely visit to Fleurs de Villes WONDER at The Leaf…

for Christmas I had given my buddies tickets to the show… such a great gift which adds another celebration for everyone…

we had lunch at Gather to celebrate our January birthday woman before the tour;-)…

we had dropped our birthday person at the back entrance, which is much closer for anyone with walking issues and then drove around and parked at the front…

for this visit, we skipped the Tropical biome and moved right into the Mediterranean biome to see the fifteen displays…

every time I walk through the area I spot details I hadn’t noticed before;-)…

I’ve volunteered twice, and visited three times so it is quite astonishing that I keep discovering new things…

the group enjoyed all of the displays and it was fun as each person made their choice of favourite piece…

I keep vacillating between three, lol…

handcrafted…

18 Sunday Jan 2026

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recently, a package came in the mail from my daughter in Ottawa…

in it was a delightful handcrafted calendar that is a bouquet…

it is going to look different every month as the twelve pieces move from front to back;-)…

I am so blessed;-)…

decisions…

16 Friday Jan 2026

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spent time this morning at Fleurs de Villes, at The Leaf, with my adventure buddy;-)…

what a treat…

each display had many gorgeous flowers and lots of very interesting details… it was hard to decide which one I liked the most…

so many orchids caught my attention;-)…

decisions, decisions;-)…

then we headed to Myer’s Delicatessen for lunch… yum, our first visit, and we look forward to another…

invasive…

21 Tuesday Oct 2025

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out in the garden and front yard on Sunday morning…

pulled out a huge clump of self-seeded morning glories in the front flower bed… the frost got them a few days before…

I can understand how they are considered invasive in BC… but they weren’t causing any problem in the flower bed and added some lovely flowers for the last month or so…

nearly filled one of the yard waste bags and then I swept up Virginia creeper branches on the bottom decks… the bag was pretty full by the time I was done…

final piece of work was removing all the morning glory vines from the butterfly bench…

still a few jobs to do to close down the garden for the season…

dragon…

18 Saturday Oct 2025

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last week we went through the garden and collected flowers from the pansies, bachelor buttons and petunias, as they will be a special snack treat for the bearded dragon, lol…