I’am very pleased to announce my Garden Lilac Hill is now available to view on YouTube! The channel will feature the garden from when we first started in 2018 through the years to current day. You can see all the plants I grow, the different garden beds that have been put in, the various areas for wildlife! I…
A Cold, West Coast Night
Winter has definitely settled over my garden Lilac Hill so it is a good time to stay inside and enjoy a very special tea. The tea I am having is Milk Oolong. Oolong teas are not as well known as mainstream teas, this tea has a creamy milk taste and aroma. Oolongs are grown mainly in Taiwan and…
Happy New Year! 2024!
The tea I have chosen to welcome in 2024 is Lapsang Souchong a tea worthy of worthy of celebrating! Lapsang Souchong is a black, full bodied tea with the taste and aroma of pine needles. The tea brews very dark and the steeped leaves are small, the word souchong means small leaf varietal. The taste is strong, medicinal…
Visit to Lilac Hill
Hello and thanks for visiting my Heather’s Tea Garden blog. In addition to this blog I am starting a new blog to coincide with our new property Lilac Hill. http://gardenbloomsblog.wordpress.com I am going to take readers along the same path I travel in creating my new gardens. I also have a writers website to…
Blooms on Lilac Hill
This page will showcase the seasonal changes as the plants on Lilac Hill, Powell River, British Columbia, Canada, grow and the garden gets established. I hope you enjoy the pictures, feel free to pin any of them. I dug up over 100 plants from my previous garden! The only plants here when we moved in…
A Day at the Fair
Its been a while since my last entry, a lot has happened mainly we moved to Powell River BC on September 6th 2018. There is so much to see and do, the town is situated on BC’s far west coast and has expansive views of the ocean. We live in the area known as Cranberry…
A Day in the Garden
Today I held my annual open garden for the members of the Maple Ridge Garden Club. For those of you not familiar with where I live in Chilliwack, Maple Ridge is over an hour drive west from Chilliwack. We lived in Maple Ridge for almost 20 years before buying our new home/garden in the winter of 2013….
Garden Beauties
After all these years of gardening I am still amazed by the beauty of nature. For me gardening is not work, I find it to be a great way to de-stress, I can garden for hours and get so caught up I loose track of time! For all the care I give my plants I…
Lovely Lilacs!
As a gardener I have lots of very nice plants so why is it I ask myself that it’s always the one I don’t have that I can’t stop thinking about? Take the lilac that blooms at my parent’s house, it is one of the loveliest plants I have ever seen! And as much as…
Raindrops on Roses…
The sun has just come out after a few days of heavy rain, the garden is illuminated with raindrops shimmering on all the young growth. Spring is here and the garden is about to burst with plants for the new season. The winter was very mild, I better not speak too soon we might still get…
Heather's Tea Garden 