Welcome to the Duchess of Dirt’s website and the venue for our show garden at
Growing Concern Cottage Garden!

Late Winter 2024!

Sadie welcomes you to our garden

Garden cleanup has started and we are seeing perennial plants rising up out of the ground and buds are forming on the spring flowering shrubs and trees. It is so exciting I do not even mind seeing the weeds pop up. Well, maybe a little bit. But it is nice to know the end of winter is in sight.

However, there is a chance of a late blip of winter weather, situated as we are at the foot of Mt. Washington ski hill. So it will be a few more weeks before we can be assured when we can announce the start of our Garden Open Days this spring. Stay tuned!

 

Interested in hearing about what is happening at Growing Concern Cottage Garden and learning interesting facts about plants, insects, diseases and other garden-worthy tidbits on a monthly basis? Subscribe to my monthly newsletter called Toil ‘n’ Trowel right here in the sidebar to receive your copy.  

 


Please note: I am the only “Duchess of Dirt” in British Columbia and there are only two of us in Canada.
I am a gardener, writer, and educator. “Duchess of Dirt” is my pen name.


Feel free to check out the items under the various Menu Buttons which will provide you with a more intimate peek at the plants and wildlife in our Zone 7a garden, located in the maritime Pacific Northwest. More specifically…we are nestled in rural Black Creek under the shadow of the renowned ski hill, Mt. Washington, within the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island in beautiful British Columbia, Canada.

 

 

 

 

 

Most of the photos were taken by my photographer husband…John – the Duke of Compost…who is also a bona fide plant-aholic gardening nut same as me.  The others… especially most of the insect ones…are mine.

We hope you enjoy the journey.

Leslie and John Cox

 

 

Growing Concern Cottage Garden
7896 Fairview Rd
Black Creek, BC    V9J 1G5