About
Saanich Garden Journal is a set of walking notes from one gardener on the peninsula. It is not a desk that speaks for the beds.
Who is writing
I walk, I look, and I write the walk down before I forget the weather. The sentences are mine. If a plant name is wrong, the error is mine too.
November 2026 is the date on this set of notes. I will revise a page when a path or a planting has clearly changed, and I will leave the date honest when I do.
Not a notice from the garden
These pages do not take money, do not keep accounts, and do not sell anything. There is no cart and no membership. You are reading a notebook that happens to be on a screen.
The notes are not written for the owners of the land, and they are not a message from the people who tend the beds. I am not their voice. What I publish is what I saw and what I think of it.
Why the day page sits in the middle
The practical piece is the page about how a day actually goes. I set it in the middle of the home note because a walker needs the shape of the hours more than a pile of room descriptions.
The other pages are closer studies. The quarry, the rose arches, the pond and the red maple, the harbour town. Read them when one room is the point. Read the day page when the order of the walk is the point.
Letters
The contact is [email protected]. Write if a path I described has changed, or if I have misnamed a plant and you know the correction.
I read those letters. I do not build a list from them, and I do not ask you to join anything. A correction that earns its place shows up in a later note.
The address of the journal
The journal lives at infogardenbutch.online. That name is the address of these pages and nothing else.
Print a page if you want paper in a pocket. I kept the text short enough to read on a phone while you are still deciding which path to take at the gate.