This year we took a two night break up to Sidney, which is about an hours drive from where we live, usually we just go for a single night, but we wanted to enjoy Sidney more this time and explore the area.
The reason we go there in September, usually after labour day, is to visit Russell Nursery for more plants and shrubs, financed by Karen's mum and brother, it is a tradition, a yearly pilgrimage and we attempt to maximise the bang for the buck by saving some "orphans" along the way.
All mixed up, we bought a total of 18 plants at the nursery, which are going to keep us busy over the next week in the garden, in the photo above there are also 5 other orphans from Canadian Tire, so I believe we have 23 plants to find spots for.
The trip to Sidney was quite wonderful, we went to see the second location of "The West Coast Grill" and chatted to the owner, Val, who bought us a pint, we had a great long walk along the coastline and visited several pubs (of course) and on the Thursday evening it was the street market which was interesting, as usual, nothing to buy but plenty of happy dogs to distract us from the overpriced scones.
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