Marigold: Saanich Peninsula location 'an opportunity to do something really special'

Marigold Lands, a $138 million project to build 250 homes on former nursery land on the Saanich Peninsula, had an improbable start, by developer Tim Hackett’s account.
“I went to the (former) Marigold Nursery to buy some African daisies for my wife,” says Hackett, “and I came back with the daisies and the (eight-acre) nursery.”
While there, he fell into a conversation with Ray Smith, the nursery’s owner, who had supplied plants to Hackett’s previous hous