Flower Power Blossoms In Victoria As Billions Of Blooms Tallied In Annual Count
March 13, 2012 | 1 min to read
VICTORIA – In early March, most parts of Canada would have trouble counting a handful of flowering shrubs and bulbs, but gardens around Greater Victoria are bursting with billions of blooms.
And it's a bad year.
Results from the 36th annual Victoria Flower Count are in, and gardeners in the city with the mildest climate in the country have tallied more than 2-billion snowdrops, daffodils, hyacinths, forsythia, cherry blossoms and other flowers.
More than 731-million blooms were counted in the City of Victoria, alone, but Chamber of Commerce chairman John Espley notes the total count is anything but a record.
To read the rest of the story, please go to: Canadian Press