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Feathered Friends: Is your bird seed mix poisoning your birds?

February 25, 2023 Canada's Local Gardener 2227 Views Aflatoxin, Animals, Aspergillus flavis, bird seed, birdfeeder, featherfriends, hopper feeder, Mycoplasmal conjunctivitis, potent carcinogen, seed, tube feeders

Feathered Friends with Sherrie Versluis Wild bird products are found almost anywhere these days at hardware stores, gardening centres, and

Feathered Friends: The incredible bald eagle, a force of nature

February 22, 2023 Canada's Local Gardener 1403 Views Animals, bald eagle, featherfriends, largest nests of bird, sherrie versluis

Feathered Friends with Sherrie Versluis There is not a more revered bird of prey than the bald eagle. This is

Animals Birds Local Gardener

Feathered Friends: The beautiful haunting call of the Common Loon

February 22, 2023 Canada's Local Gardener 1227 Views acid rain, Animals, Bird Studies Canada, birder, Canadian Lakes Loon Survey, Canadian one dollar coin, feathered friends, hunting loons, incubation, lake birds, loon, Loonie, Sherries Versluis, tremelo-call, wail-call, yodel

Feathered Friends with Sherrie Versluis Living in Canada is a great thing for nature lovers. We are so fortunate to

Annuals Flowers Garden Design Ideas Perennials Plants

Coreopsis: A bright and cheery flower

February 22, 2023 Canada's Local Gardener 1262 Views bedbug, coreopsis, insect, koris, Plants

Coreopsis pleases everyone! People love it for its sunny, long-lasting blooms. Birds love it for its seeds and butterflies, and

Animals Gardening for Beginners Gardening with Kids Insects

What Insects are in Your Backyard?

February 22, 2023 Canada's Local Gardener 1597 Views Animals, backyard, insect, lady beetle, ladybug, red lily beetle, robert wrigley, soldier beetle

By Robert Wrigley It was a late afternoon when I decided to relax by reading a book in my backyard

10 Neat Things Edibles Plants

10 Neat Things About Rhubarb

February 21, 2023 Canada's Local Gardener 2306 Views edible plants, Plants, rhubarb

1. The bitter truth, and neat thing, about rhubarb. Rhubarb lovers may lament it and disagree, but the truth is

Annuals Garden Design Ideas Garden Info Gardening for Beginners How-to Perennials Plants

6 Soft and Fuzzy Plants

January 30, 2023 Canada's Local Gardener 3214 Views Dusty miller, lamb'sear, Plants, Purple velvet plant, Swedish ivy, Woolly thyme

Story & photos by Dorothy Dobbie When we think plants along with soft and fuzzy or velvety leaves, Lamb’s ear

Animals Garden Helpers Local Gardener

An Attempt to Appreciate Slugs

January 30, 2023 Canada's Local Gardener 1730 Views Animals, gardening helper, slugs

Nobody likes slugs. Well, nobody except, maybe, five-year-old boys. For gardeners, they chew holes in foliage and leave a very

Animals Local Gardener

Lookalike Butterflies: Monarchs and viceroys

January 30, 2023 Canada's Local Gardener 1558 Views butterflies, monarch, viceroys

Monarchs and viceroys are often confused due to their strikingly similar appearance. While once thought to be a one-sided mimicry,

Animals Garden Pests Insects

Inebriated Animals and Insects

January 30, 2023 Canada's Local Gardener 1292 Views Animals, Birds, insects

Do the birds and the bees get a little drunk sometimes? They certainly seem to, at least some of them.

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