When Shannon Waters was moving to Prince George, in the central Interior region of northern British Columbia, flowers were not the first thing on her mind.
“I thought it was this cold place dominated by the smell of pulp mills,” she said, admitting some trepidation about coming to the community for a job opportunity.
But she soon discovered another smell dominating her downtown neighbourhood: lilacs, growing on a hedge at the edge of her yard — along with dozens of other trees and bushes that dominate the city’s landscape in mid-spring.
“Just waking up to the smell of lilacs on a cool, but not cold anymore, morning … is just a lovely sensory
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