Flowers!
posted May 24th, 2019 at 7:01 PM
I am one of these stop and smell the flowers kind of guys. And I confess that when I stop to smell flowers now, I don't smell anything. Is there a place in Vancouver that I can actually smell the scent of a great flower or am I doomed to not have that in Vancity?!
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May 25, 2019 at 10:20am
Learn your flowers so you won't be disappointed. Roses are a sure winner. So are lilacs, wisteria, cherry and plum blossoms, the purple flowers on African trees (called Jacaranda) here and there around town that you can smell better from a distance than up close and those little cluster blue grainy things on bushes (no idea what they're called but they smell like dusty blueberries and are for butterflies and bees to eat). Others are more visually ornamental and annoyingly scentless, like azaleas, pansies, daisies. Chestnut trees have flowers that are super faint and delicate, so when they bloom you're better being downwind to catch these. Some bushes have tiny flowers in the spring that give an amazing scent. Any others, readers?
There's
May 25, 2019 at 12:41pm
The flower garden between the Stanley Park golf course and Lost Lagoon. It's powerfully aromatic at this time of year as it is in full bloom. Try it early in the morning or evening when there is less wind happening. You'll be impressed.
assuming this is not a metaphor for something else....
May 25, 2019 at 1:03pm
there are roses all along E 8th between commercial and woodland that I stop and smell daily. And lilac along the path that runs down Maclean to Clark.
Eyed roses
May 25, 2019 at 11:13pm
Roses with "eyes" usalu have more scent than the hybrid varieties. Check out van Dusen for great scents too. The Staley Park Rose Garden has many that smell. Good luck!
The Stanley Park Rose Garden
May 26, 2019 at 5:26am
Was one of my favorite places to feel the acute absence of you and the utter absurdity of going all the way out there just to wander around lost and loney
Flower power
May 28, 2019 at 2:11pm
Any ways queen Elizabeth park is has lots of flowers
Flowers that are amazing. I haven't been there since 2009, I'm sure they still exists.
Misses Vancouver Flowers
Jun 3, 2019 at 1:52pm
They brightened my day, even when they didn't smell at all.
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