{"id":9086,"date":"2021-05-26T15:56:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T19:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=9086"},"modified":"2021-09-09T06:55:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T10:55:01","slug":"episode-351-the-rhododendron-garden-hancock-family-of-mississauga-in-full-bloom-may-262021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=9086","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 351 THE RhODODENDRON GARDEN (HANCOCK FAMILY of Mississauga) IN FULL BLOOM MAY 26,2021"},"content":{"rendered":"
EPISODE 351    THE RHODODENDRON GARDEN (HANCOCK FAMILY OF MISSISSAUGA) IN FULL BLOOM MAY 26,2021<\/p>\n

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HOLD on to your socks!   We visited the Hancock rhododendron garden today.   Full bloom here and there in the climax forest.<\/div>\n
Something few people have ever seen and yet the garden is open to the public.   If you live close by then pack up your camera<\/div>\n
and hike over there right now.  There was only one other couple there today.  Seemed like a wonderland designed just for us<\/div>\n
alone.  Marjorie organized our visit.  I had no idea such a fairyland forest existed in heart of Mississauga.<\/div>\n

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It will really knock your socks off!<\/div>\n

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Camilla Road\u2026QEW and Hurontario\u2026one block east of Hurontario on North Service Road\u2026small parking lost for 10 cars\u2026free.<\/div>\n

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Put your socks back on and hustle over to the Hancock Garden right now.  <\/div>\n

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This CUTE little brown snake was hustling across a pathway in the garden.  You should hustle as well.<\/div>\n

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Why take this picture?  To show how the Mississauga Parks system has protected the Hancock forest with the very<\/div>\n
best cable and couplings.   Do not jump the fence and trample the woodland.<\/div>\n

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Here is a mystery for you to solve.  Why is this Hancock Woodlands garden shed featuring Japanese script.  There must be a reason.  <\/div>\n
My high school chums at Humberside in the 1950\u2019s may have known\u2026Takasaki and Hayashi may have known but not said much<\/div>\n
about it\u2026actually said nothing about the sudden presence of Japanese families in Toronto in the Second World War.  The Hancock<\/div>\n
story is complicated and heart warming if you take the time to read the signage.   Makes the blooms all the more powerful. <\/div>\n
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EPISODE 351    THE RHODODENDRON GARDEN (HANCOCK FAMILY OF MISSISSAUGA) IN FULL BLOOM MAY 26,2021 alan skeoch May 26, 2021 HOLD on to your socks!   We visited the Hancock rhododendron garden today.   Full bloom here and there in the climax forest. Something few people have ever seen and yet the garden is open […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}