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Mini and Patio Roses for Small Spaces and Containers : Small Roses with Lots of Flower Power

March 8th, 2024|Categories: Roses|Tags: , , |

Mini and Patio Roses for Small Spaces and Containers : Small Roses with Lots of Flower Power Compact patio and miniature roses offer you more options to plant roses not just in your garden but also in containers on your patio and on your balcony. You'll [...]

Grow Milkweeds : Support Beneficial Butterflies and Insects to add intriguing Beauty to your Garden

March 5th, 2024|Categories: Pollinator Plants|Tags: , , , |

Grow Milkweeds : Support beneficial butterflies and insects to add intriguing beauty to your garden Asclepias is a genus of hardy perennial plants that belong to the family Apocynaceae and are commonly known as milkweeds. Milkweeds are well-known for their ecological importance as they provide nectar [...]

New Striped Roses

February 29th, 2024|Categories: Roses|Tags: , |

New Striped Roses Striped roses are like plants with variegated foliage, they're not for everyone but those who like them, like them a lot! And even many of those who say they don't like them come around eventually. Striped roses make an intriguing and bold statement [...]

Discover and Grow Pawpaws : These hardy trees produce delicious fruit with tropical flavours

February 15th, 2024|Categories: Gardening Advice|Tags: , |

Discover and Grow Pawpaws : These hardy trees produce delicious fruit with tropical flavours Pawpaw (Asimina triloba) is an intriguing eastern North American understorey tree that grows across much of the eastern US and into southern Ontario. It is a member of the Annonaceae (Custard [...]

Aeonium: Succulents for Drama and Vertical Appeal

February 14th, 2024|Categories: Succulents|Tags: , |

Aeonium: Succulents for Drama and Vertical Appeal Aeonium, sometimes called tree houseleeks, is a wonderful group of rosette-forming succulents that have the added appeal of growing atop woody trunks into architecturally beautiful branching sculptures. Young plants look a lot like an Echeveria but over time Aeonium will rise upon [...]

English Style Roses for Canadian Gardens (Other than David Austins!)

January 17th, 2023|Categories: Fragrance, Roses|

The English style rose was made famous by the pioneering work of David Austin combining the beauty, fragrance, and romance of old roses with the colour range and performance of modern roses. While David Austin is the most famous breeder of English style roses, he is not the only one!

David Austin Roses for Canadian Gardens

January 17th, 2023|Categories: Fragrance, Roses|

David Austin roses are some of the most renowned and beloved roses in the world. Since the 1950s David Austin has been working to combine the beauty and romance of old roses with the performance of modern roses. His work has lead to a stunning range of beautiful and fragrant top-performing cultivars for Canadian gardens.

Haworthia: An amazing genus of southern African succulents

April 16th, 2020|Categories: Houseplants, Succulents|

Haworthia is a lesser-known genus in the world of succulents — especially relative to favourites like Echeveria, Aeonium, Agave, and Aloe — but it is a spectacular and fascinating group of small succulent plants with an incredible diversity of structures, patterns, and colours. Haworthia also have cool evolutionary innovations that help them survive in the challenging, semi-arid environments of southern Africa and make them more beautiful and more intriguing.

The Joys of Edible Gardening During a Crisis

April 10th, 2020|Categories: Edible Gardening, Gardening Advice|

Edible gardening is fulfilling and inspiring, it provides exercise, gets you outside, saves money, connects you with family, friends, and neighbours, and provides you with delicious produce. In times of crisis, growing your own food becomes all the more important for economic reasons and for psychological and physical health. Learn more about the benefits of edible gardening and get some valuable tips to success.

All About Hellebores

February 25th, 2020|Categories: Perennials, Shade Gardening|

Hellebores are an incredible group of evergreen perennials for gardeners from zone 3 to zone 9. In warmer zones, they are winter and early spring-blooming plants providing colour from late November through April. In colder zones, they bloom in late winter and early spring as soon as the snow melts. In any zone they provide interest when most other plants are soundly dormant bringing forth the first major burst of colour for the season.

Hardy Cyclamen

October 18th, 2019|Categories: Bulbs, Shade Gardening|

Cyclamen is a genus of plants known best for the florist cultivars of large, boldy-coloured flowers and dramatic mottled foliage grown as decorative, seasonal or short-lived pot plants. Many people remain unaware that there are species that are hardy in temperate gardens or that they are in leaf and in bloom in the fall, winter, and early spring!

Oddball Bulbs: Explore the Beautiful and Unusual World of Bulbs

October 18th, 2019|Categories: Bulbs|

Bulbs, corms, and rhizomes represent a particular life history strategy that has evolved in almost every region of the world. Applied to gardens, they offer us beauty, intrigue, and additional strategies for layering in interest and colour. Explore some of the most interesting oddball bulbs for your patio or garden.

Fabulous Foxtail Lilies

August 30th, 2019|Categories: Bulbs|

Few bulbs can create the kind of drama that foxtail lilies offer with their rockets of lily-like flowers reaching three, four, five, six, even eight feet high, depending on the species and cultivar you choose. Learn more about the amazing Eremurus!

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