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Gardening for Beginners How-to Local Gardener Wild Flowers

Dandelions: Weed or wildflower?

January 27, 2023 Canada's Local Gardener 2248 Views dandelions, weed, wildflowers

By Shauna Dobbie When I was a young child, I was allowed to pick pansies and tulips sometimes, crocuses never,

Animals Local Gardener

Dissecting Canada thistle

January 27, 2023 Canada's Local Gardener 2381 Views dissecting, thistle

By Shauna Dobbie I bet you wish you could actually dissect all the Canada thistles out there and trash them.

Animals How-to Local Gardener

What to Plant to Attract Butterflies

January 27, 2023 Canada's Local Gardener 2490 Views Aster, Blanket flower, butterflies, Foxglove, gardening, milkweed, Monarchs, Perennials, pollinators

If you want to have monarchs and other butterflies in your garden, plant nectar-rich flowers. Make sure your choices bloom

Animals Local Gardener

Blue Jays Don’t Deserve Their Bad Reputation

January 27, 2023 Canada's Local Gardener 2992 Views blue jays

By Dorothy Dobbie They look blue. You’d swear they are blue, a very striking, and intense blue kind of blue.

Flowers Perennials Plants

Dissecting Bleeding Heart

January 27, 2023 Canada's Local Gardener 2519 Views bleeding heart, dissecting

By Shauna Dobbie My grandmother had a big bleeding heart in her garden, next to her front door. As a

hartley botanic greenhouse

Garden Design Ideas How-to Local Gardener

Greenhouses: How to Choose One?

November 28, 2022 Canada's Local Gardener 2542 Views gardener, greenhouses

Hartley Botanic is one of England’s oldest and most respected greenhouse manufacturers, with an increasingly large following in the US

Garden of Kenneth MacDonald

Beautiful Gardens P.E.I.

The Garden of Kenneth MacDonald

November 4, 2022 Canada's Local Gardener 2863 Views foliage-focused, Garden design, Ken MacDonald, PEI garden, plant collector, plant textures, shade, shrub and tree garden

Story by Shauna Dobbie, photos by David Johnson Visiting the garden of a collector is always a wonder. How many

Garden of Robert wrigley and arlene dahl

Beautiful Gardens Manitoba

The Garden of Robert Wrigley & Arlene Dahl

November 4, 2022 Canada's Local Gardener 3515 Views Arlene Dahl, backyard garden., cellist, ecologist, garden transformation, geothermal heating, musical-themed plants, robert wrigley, solar panels, succulent collection, Winnipeg garden

Story by Arlene Dahl, photos by Dorothy Dobbie When my husband Robert Wrigley and I moved into our home in

Building a shed

How-to Ye Two Olde Dawgs

Building a Shed

November 4, 2022 Canada's Local Gardener 2474 Views backyard security, construction process, DIY project, garden storage, home improvement, Rubbermaid shed, shed building, shed installation., teamwork, tools

The summer started and ended in the blink of an eye. It seems to have faded into memory now as

Garden of Ken Popove

Beautiful Gardens British Columbia

The Garden of Ken Popove

November 4, 2022 Canada's Local Gardener 2971 Views backyard oasis, Chilliwack garden, Garden design, greenhouses, Ken Popove, ornamental touches, shade, urban gardening, vegetable garden, West Coast shrubs

Ken Popove of Chilliwack, B.C.Story and photos by Dorothy Dobbie When you are in politics, especially civic politics, your life

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