Vancouver Bloedel Conservatory
We’re well into the gloom of autumn here in Western Canada and even had a light dusting of snow, so I’m not doing much gardening right now, but this year was not my best gardening effort anyway.
I usually like to make up a few pots for the deck, including herbs, and plant some peas or beans or tomatoes.
This year, however, I had ten books release plus a series of novellas in German. It’s been absolute madness while I also completed and turned in seven more new books.
I jokingly told my husband I was letting my gardens ‘lie fallow’ which means I did next to no weeding and zero planting. I completely forgot to pick out my garlic from the previous fall!
I also did a lot of traveling this year, as a sort of reward for all those books. Fun fact: The book I’m promoting today is my 60th Harlequin!
We’re heading to Hawaii to celebrate that, but when we can’t get away somewhere tropical, we like to visit places like the Bloedel Conservatory in Vancouver.
This was a blustery March day with a wind that had us dreaming of spring. We spent a wonderful hour communing with the birds and finished off with lunch at a microbrewery.
I wish I could offer tips on creating a garden like this for yourself, but I think it involves hiring professional horticulturists and avian keepers. Which my hero probably has in his palace since it’s on a fictional island somewhere near Iceland!
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Award-winning and USA Today Bestselling author Dani Collins thrives on giving readers emotional, compelling, heart-soaring romance with laughter and heat thrown in, just like real life. While she is best known for writing contemporary romance for Harlequin Presents and Tule Publishing, she also writes historical and erotic romance. When she’s not writing—just kidding, she’s always writing. Dani lives in Southern BC, Canada with her high school sweetheart husband.
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I'd love the see the Vancouver conservatory someday. Wow, that's exciting about the books! Enjoy Hawaii!
ReplyDeleteit's beautiful, and there are some other big outdoor gardens like VanDusen worth visiting as well :)
DeleteThe Conservatory is a beautiful place to visit. I love Hawaii, another one of my favorite places.
ReplyDeleteTake care, enjoy your day and the week ahead.
thanks Eileen!
DeleteHave a lovely trip to Hawaii. I traveled there, Oahu and Hawaii islands, about 40 years ago. Time flies.
ReplyDeletethis was our fourth trip and it's over now, but so wonderful! (and expensive) but I still highly recommend a revisit :)
DeleteWhat a beautiful place and no need to feel bad about your own garden as you have achieved such a lot this year. Congratulations, and thanks for visiting my tiny blog and saying such nice things about my cards. I feel my garden has been neglected this year and I haven't got your excuse. My current urgent job is to bring my succulents in from the wet and cold of our November weather xx
ReplyDeletewe're often caught off-guard. early October is still nice, then it plunges to frost and/or snow. I hope you're succulents are okay :)
DeleteHow Nice! I live in an apartment so I just have a small garden in front of my door.
ReplyDeletethat still sounds lovely and very manageable! :)
DeleteAs a Canadian, I also appreciate visiting a beautiful conservatory in winter! Enjoy your trip to Hawaii, that's another one of my favourite places! Thanks for popping by my blog today.
ReplyDeletemy pleasure - stay warm! :)
DeleteLovely orchids and the book sounds good.
ReplyDeletethanks!
DeleteCongratulation for ten books release this year.... great works.
ReplyDelete# wish to visit Vancouver Conservatory ......interesting place.
thanks! I hope you get a chance to visit it. It's beautiful :)
DeleteI'm not much of a gardener, either. Sometimes it is best to let things lie fallow until you have the energy to tackle them.
ReplyDeleteright? I enjoy being outside and puttering, but honestly, I usually wind up with an injury and no real harvest or flowers so it's best left to the professionals, lol
Deletelovely flowers..... orchid is one of my favorites....
ReplyDeletearen't they gorgeous?
DeleteWow! 60 books! Congratulations! That definitely deserves a special celebration. Have fun in Hawaii!
ReplyDeleteI love the flowers, and you deserve them after that many books! Have a great day!
ReplyDeletebeautiful photos! have a great December! :)
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I think you can't always do "everything at once". This year the garden seems to have taken a back seat to your books, but that sounds like a great achievement. Enjoy it (and Hawaii)! There will be more time for the garden again at some point.
ReplyDeleteNext fall we have a good chance of coming to Vancouver - at least that's the plan. I don't know yet whether we'll visit the Vancouver Bloedel Conservatory - it depends on the weather and the time we have. (Bloedel Conservatory sounds funny to me as a German speaker, by the way, because in our language a "Blödel" is someone who is stupid... or at least a comedian ;-) I assume it's a family name in this case?)
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It sounds like you've had an incredible and productive year with your books and travels, even if your garden took a backseat! It must be such a rewarding feeling to reach your 60th Harlequin book—congratulations! Your visit to the Bloedel Conservatory sounds like the perfect way to unwind and escape the autumn gloom.
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Hope you had fun in Hawaii. The orchid pictures are beautiful by the way!
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