Grow & Gather: Come Check it Out!

Spring is in full swing at Grow & Gather and my Dad and Renata are keeping busy in their second year of owning this great garden center. If you haven't been by to check it out yet, it's a must! Their hanging baskets are gorgeous and there is lots of other great stuff to do and see.

Gorgeous baskets and planters 

The pond department has been re-done and looks excellent! 

Edison loves going to see all the fish 

Of course, the visit wouldn't be complete without feeding the koi in the big pond 

If you are in Maple Ridge, swing by! 24565 Dewdney Trunk Road. 

Koi!

Edison loves the fact that his Grandpa and Zia own a pretty awesome garden centre... filled with so many fun things to look at. The thing he gets the most excited about seeing are the fish, of course! When I tell him we're going to go visit Grandpa he says "Papa! Fish!".

If you get the chance to go to the garden centre (Grow & Gather), you MUST check out the pond in the back. It's a beautiful pond, and its filled with some pretty amazing Koi fish. There are lot of fish in there, they're huge, and some of them are about 30 years old!

The Koi in the big pond love to be fed and it's Edison's favourite thing to do when we go there... he says "Fish! Food!". Last weekend we brought Nana along with us to show her the amazing koi. After we fed them we took a little wander around. They have some beautiful plants in there!

Throwing out the food for them 

Yum Yum 

They are very friendly fish! 

The view from the other side of the pond

Inside the garden centre we said hello to all of the baby koi. 

Edison loved touching the water coming out of this fountain 

Of course I always have to take picture of the beautiful flowers. I also thought the little floating gardens were pretty cool!

It's always a fun time at Grow & Gather!

Spring at Trice Farms

With all of this glorious weather we've had in the past couple of days, we decided to pay Trice Farms (Grow & Gather) another visit today and see how things are coming along now that Spring is upon us. Things have definitely filled out and they have a really great selection of gorgeous plants, pots, and all the other garden accessories you'll need.

My dad (Bill) and Renata were featured in an article in the Vancouver Sun recently... click here if you'd like to check it out.

If you haven't made your way in to Trice yet this season, you really need to go check it out! 24565 Dewdney Trunk Road in Maple Ridge is the place to be this Spring and Summer!

 Renata, hard at work

 The Koi have come up from the depths to enjoy the sun

I was also able to sneak into the back greenhouses and take a look at what's in store for later on this season, once the weather warms up. Its so lush and beautiful... and warm back there, I could spend the whole day there!