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VERNON GIVES YOU THE
TIME OF DAY — IN
FLOWERS -
by Ginnie Beardsley

The historic institution of
the town clock is hardly a
necessity in the day of the
ubiquitous wristwatch, but a
large public clock remains a
pleasantly traditional
gesture of goodwill.
Nowhere Is this gesture
more charmingly extended
than in the Okanagan city of
Vernon — where f! ey say it
with flowers when they tell
you the time.

In the tradition league, the
Vernon Floral Clock is a
mere youngster, with its

official 20th birthday still ,
two years away, but it has
earned a secure place inthe ff
hearts of Vernon citizens 5
and is on the “must see”
lists of most visitors to the

North Okanagan city.

Appropriately, the floral ‘

clock is located at the en-

trance to the city’s Polson §
Park, a place where active f
sport and the pleasures of
green lawns
under great trees live side ff
and where §

relaxing on

by side
westerners daily give the lie
to Kipling in enjoyment of a
Japanese garden
Chinese tea house.
The floral clock is situated
at the junction of the route
south to Okanagan Lake and
north to Lumby. A flower
border divides the park
from thestreet and the clock

is the focal point of a lawn §

area flanked by cedar
hedges. Ever since its
formal opening in 1958 by
Princess” Margaret, the
Vernon clock has blossomed
out its colorful message of
time on the first of June and
continued to carry
through until September 15.
In addition to the perfectly
functioning clock designed
-by John Clark of Guelph,
Ontario, the arden
timepiece gives each day’s
date no, not
automatically. Each

- morning the plants spelling

Canada, measures 30 feet

,with its face and figures

and

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ENTERTAINMENT, THE

[ROAM AT HOME

A TRAVEL BRITISH COLUMBIA FEATURE:

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maintain a good showing

this out must be changed by ‘ a i
Parks and Recreation throughout the season. sidered as, re T they were
Department gardeners, annuals — lifted at the end

The clock, which was the

first of its type in western alvecs lorted i Sole

always planted in Santolina,
a greyish green. in colour
and the date is always of
Alternanthera, which may °
he selected in green, red ora
mottle mixture of yellow-.

of the season, wintered-over
in Parks and Recreation’s

(nine metres) in diameter,

formed by some 3,500
plants. The plants originally
came from such widely

greenhouses, plants divided.

HERALD, Wed. Mar. 9, 1977, 9

and cuttings taken for
propagation. :
(This. Roam at Home

article is one of a seties
provided by Tourism British
Columbia.) woe

green. A white background
is generally the selection for
the date strip above the
figure 12, while reddish
tones are favored for con-
trast to the grey-green of the -
figures. .

~ While some of the plants ~~
used are commonly con-

eRe

separated places as Prince
George and Niagara Falls,
but the Parks = and
Recreation Department
have since been propagating
their own and ex-
perimenting with a wide
variety of flowering and
foliage plants’ which can

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