Gardener and photographer living in Grimsby Ontario in the heart of Niagara.
This is the 49th annual Victoria Flower Count Festival. Only 10 hours left to get that flower count in. The count concludes at 4:00pm Pacific time today. How did it go in 2023 - how many blossoms did people count in one week?
2023 “Bloomingest Community”: Sidney: 7,580,503,851
2023 Community Runner Up: North Saanich: 7,558,368,163
2023 Winning School: Hillcrest Elementary
2023 Total Municipal Blooms Counted: 33,386,900,082There's a running count on Facebook with wonderful spring pictures -https://www.facebook.com/FlowerCountVictoria is ahead of Sydney so far with 8,153,733,174 - that's well ahead of last year. We seem to trying to catch up to Victoria time - there are daffodils blooming in the garden. Here are some Paperwhite Narcissus.