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Caring for a Globe Caragana (Caragana arborescens)
Discover how to keep your Globe Caragana thriving in tough weather conditions with our comprehensive care guide based on expert tips.
Caring for a Preston Lilac (Syringa x prestoniae)
Learn how to care for your Preston Lilac. Tips on planting, soil, watering, pruning, and more for a thriving garden addition.
Sustainable Gardening: How to Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle Green Waste in Your Garden
Discover how to manage green waste efficiently and create a thriving, eco-friendly outdoor space with sustainable gardening practices.
Veronica liwenensis is a Worthy Ground Cover
Discover the beauty of Veronica Liwanensis, an easy-to-grow ground cover perfect for rock gardens and sunny yards. Learn how to cultivate this charming plant!
Winter is dreaming season! Great Plants for Winter Interest
Discover how to create a beautiful winter garden by adding shrubs and trees with architectural interest year-round, bringing color and texture to the landscape.
Everything you want to know about Biocontrols
Introduced species become invasive in areas lacking their natural pests, diseases, and predators. Biological controls can fail without proper precautions.
Black Ash Tree
Black ash has a large natural area in the United States and Canada. These trees thrive in damp environments and are typically found in northern marshy forests.
Pots inside a Live Trap for Overwintering
I planted them in pots and protected them with chicken wire, but ended up placing the pots inside my old live trap. Now they’re safe and ready for winter.
Starting and growing native tree seeds
Learn how to properly plant and over-winter native tree seeds for germination using cold stratification and preparation techniques.
Bitternut Hickory
Discover how the Bitternut Hickory tree thrives in various environments and provides sweet rewards for wildlife in shady locations.
Growing Alpine Plants, aka Rock Gardening: Getting Started
Learn the history of rock gardens and how to grow alpine plants in your garden. Discover the unique growing conditions and design tips for success.
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Tropical Hibiscus and Hardy Hibiscus
Hibiscus are hardy perennials, while others are annuals, shrubs, or tropical plants. Hibiscus plants are grown for a variety of uses.
Spectacular Annuals for Containers
Annuals for container gardening are great for novice gardeners or anyone who wants to add interest and colour to their porch or patio.
Acid Loving Plants That Like Acidic Soil
Learn about a variety of acid loving plants that add beauty to your garden. From azaleas to hydrangeas, unlock a colorful world of gardening possibilities.
Hydrangea Care: an Easy Guide for Beginners
Hydrangeas are hardy fellas that don’t require a whole lot of fuss, producing beautiful flowers in various shapes. Read how to care for them.
Plants that Attract Monarch Butterflies
Choose the right plants for your monarch butterfly garden. If you feed them plants they like, they will pollinate your entire garden.
Geraniums are Easy Care Summer Darlings
Geraniums are a plant that is easy to care for and will produce flowers from spring until fall. In most zones, geraniums are an annual plant.
Flowering Perennials for Four Seasons of Interest
Flowering perennials, carefully curated to combine varying heights, colours, and textures, make the most intriguing gardens.
Garden Brick Ideas for an Attractive Landscape
Garden brick ideas can be elegant, functional, and can make your landscape even more inviting and exciting. Read on to explore ideas with us.
Tips For Making Landscape Mounds And Berms
Landscape berms and mounds are an easy and attractive way to add interest to your yard and landscape. Building them isn’t complicated.
24 Flowers For September and October
Find the perfect fall-blooming flowers in September and October to add vibrant colors to your garden until first frost.
Plants That Love The Sun
Plants that love the sun may provide vitality and colour to bare regions in the landscape. Read on for ideas.
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Fall Bulb Design: Easy, Colorful Combinations
Fall-planted bulbs are some of the easiest ways to add impactful colour to your spring garden.
White Oil Insecticide Organic Pesticide
White oil insecticide is an all natural popular insecticide spray to control a wide range of insect pests, used by organic gardeners.
Discover the White Turtlehead
Discover White Turtlehead, a beautiful & perennially blooming wetland plant. Attractive to hummingbirds & bees, it's used in shade, rain, wildflower, & native plant gardens. Perfect for cutting & its leaves are deer-resistant. Medicinal properties & uses by Native Americans, too!
Red Maple
The red maple bears brilliant coloured foliage and nutrition for many types of animals. Read more on the iconic red maple tree.
Veggie Bites – Seedlings and Potatoes
There are other seedlings I would like to be potted. I will plant some other seeds, such as cucumbers, on my outdoor shelf in early May.
Canada Milk Vetch
Attract hummingbirds, birds, butterflies and bees with Canada Milk Vetch - a beautiful flower perfect for bouquets, heavy clay soils and winter flowerpots. Perfect for restoration gardens, erosion control and dry climates.
8 Cannabis Strains with a Strong and Uplifting Effect
Sierra provides an introduction to eight (8) Cannabis and marijuana strains with a strong and uplifting effects. Useful information if you grow or buy.
In Defence of Earwigs in Your Garden
Learn about the truth behind earwigs as garden pests and beneficial insects. Discover why they may not be as harmful as they seem!
Spring Garden into Summer
Get valuable insights on tick prevention, caring for viburnums, and transplanting herbs and vegetables in the warm spring weather. Don't miss out!
Prayer Plant Care – How To Grow Maranta Leuconeura
Admire the mysterious prayer plant, Maranta leuconeura, during the day and night as its leaves fold like praying hands. This popular plant also has chocolate brown markings on its leaves, making it truly unique!
Building a Home Vegetable Garden
An urban vegetable garden is becoming more popular, and with the right space and the right materials, it is easy to start your own.
Canada Anemone Flower
The Canada anemone flower is an easy to maintain, dependable and hardy perennial ground cover that produces lovely white buttercup flowers.
Judith’s Oregano Pesto
Oregano is a woody perennial, so I often harvest only the young plants. I have discovered that my oregano makes amazing pesto!
Care Requirements For Shrimp Plant
Enjoy this easy to care for evergreen shrub that produces masses of blooms all year long - the Shrimp plant (Justicia brandegeana)! Discover its hardiness zones, cultural needs, and varieties for an eye-catching show in your garden.
Gardening for Birds: Gardening for American Goldfinches
Discover how to attract American goldfinches to your garden with native plants that provide food and nesting materials for these stunning birds.
Care and Use Colorful Coleus Plants
The Coleus plant with their bright colors, a wide variety of foliage colors, leaf shapes and forms are easy to grow and durable
Twin Flower is Charming Groundcover
Twin flower is a charming evergreen creeping vine that forms large mats in moist, shady woods. Read our Quick Growth Guide.
Blooming Daylilies in Beautiful Colours
Learn about my experience growing fingerling potatoes in a cloth bag and the challenges I faced. Find out the benefits of regular pots for potato cultivation and the importance of proper watering.
Canadian Burnet
Canadian Burnet features airy spikes of white flowers at the ends of the stems from mid summer to early fall. It attracts bees.
Veggie Bites – Eggplants
Start your eggplant early and when it has filled its seed-starting container, transplant it into a two-gallon pot.
Planting Peas from Seed
Learn more about Lydia Wong's bee cocoon study and discover how to plant peas from seed in this weekend gardening article! Lydia was amazed by the garden, check out the double bloodroots, bee cocoons, and more! Enjoy the wonders of early spring as you grow and pot up your pea plants with a greenhouse and compost/garden soil mixture for safety and success!
A Beginner’s Guide to Backyard Gardening
Backyard gardening is good for physical health and well-being, and it’s an enjoyable hobby that can help you to connect with the natural world around you.
Going to Seed
Collect Sweet Cubanelle pepper seeds and watch plants go to seed in your garden. Learn how the weather, munching leaves and too-many cats may affect the harvest. A 15 minute talk with Q&A on Trowel Talk Live helps add Whimsy to your garden.
Best Houseplants for the Kitchen
Houseplants in the kitchen help to reduce cooking odours. Grow herbs in your kitchen for easy access while cooking. Here are more ideas.