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what in the garden should you wrap for winter

What to Wrap?

February 6, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 2876 Views Alberta story, Local content, protecting plants in winter, should you wrap trees in winter

What in the garden should you wrap for winter? Nothing. Wrapping can do more harm than good as wrapping materials

wild strawberry

Wild Strawberry

February 6, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 8471 Views Edibles, Local content, wild strawberry

Have you ever considered a groundcover you can make jam from? Wild strawberries will multiply quickly to cover an area

Willows are Versatile and Beautiful

February 6, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 8344 Views bio-fuel, Erosion control, gardening with willows, pussy willow, silver willow, weeping willow, willow propagation, willow trees, willow varieties, willows

All you have to do to start a new willow is tuck a cutting (or even a stick) in some

dawn redwood

Local Gardener Trees & Shrubs

Dawn Redwood

February 6, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 6681 Views conifer trees, Dawn Redwood, deciduous conifers, fast-growing trees, gardening with redwoods, Gold Rush dawn redwood, hardy Zone 5, Metasequoia glyptostroboides, ornamental trees, tree varieties

Dawn redwood or Metasequoia glyptostroboides. Is it an acquired taste, the conifer that loses its needles in the fall? Or

creeping phlox

Perennials Plants

Creeping Phlox

February 6, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 5532 Views balanced fertilizer, Creeping Phlox, First Nations medicinal plants, flowering plants, garden borders, landscape gardening, Phlox history, rockery plants, spring blooms, Victorian flower symbolism

In springtime when the ground is bare, creeping phlox relieves the dullness with a flush of glorious pink, pristine white

Greening at Char-Lan High School

Beautiful Gardens Local Gardener

Char-Lan High School

February 6, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 4267 Views agriculture education, Char-Lan High School, community involvement in gardening, hydroponic systems, Ontario gardening, raised garden beds, School greening, school sustainability programs, Specialist High Skills Major, ZipGrow wall

Char-Lan High School in Williamstown, east of Cornwall, is giving its students a more than passing experience with gardening. They

Connie and Dave's Garden

Beautiful Gardens

Connie and Dave Prendergast

February 6, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 3043 Views Alberta gardening, Connie and Dave Prendergast, garden transformations, gardening challenges, home gardening journey, landscape design inspiration, new plants every year, peonies, Sedgewick, shade plants, slug control

Beautiful Garden Connie and Dave Prendergast Sedgewick, Alberta When they lived on Vancouver Island, Connie and Dave Prendergast didn’t think

red sugar maple tree for Manitoba

Red Maples for Manitoba

February 6, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 5106 Views happy anniversary manitoba, Local content, mantioba 150 years, sugar maple tree

Let’s celebrate Canada’s heart beat with bred in Manitoba red maple trees. Plus 150 more wishes for Manitoba’s sesquicentennial anniversary.

Pergolas for backyard privacy

Garden Design Ideas

The Pergola Solution

February 6, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 2612 Views Alberta Gardener, beautiful garden, how to use pergolas for backyard privacy, Local content

Never mind fences making good neighbours, it’s pergolas and privacy screens that are doing all the work these days when

10 Neat Things Edibles Plants

About Container Gardening

January 31, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 3609 Views bean varieties, cantaloupe for small spaces, carrot varieties, container gardening, cucumber in containers, growing corn in pots, growing vegetables in containers, lettuce for containers, onions in pots, pumpkins in containers

1. Vegetables. It used to be that just about the only edibles that people grew in containers were herbs and

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