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Red Maples for Manitoba

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

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

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

By Dorothy Dobbie It isn’t often that you grow a plant mainly for its seed heads, but some are so

By Dorothy Dobbie American elms and Dutch elm disease The native elm bark beetle, Hylurgopina rupifes, and the smaller European

In the wintertime, black knot infections become increasingly apparent. Black knot is a fungus, Apiosporina morbosa, that colonizes members of

1. Herb or ‘erb? Dropping the h-sound at the beginning of “herb” is an American affectation, so if you’re from

1. Waiting to plant. Across Canada, with the possible exception of the West Coast, Canadians wait till Victoria Day,

1. Smart cookies. Raccoons are highly intelligent with excellent memories. One study showed that they could remember very well for

1. Live fast, die young. In the plant world, an annual is a plant that completes its life cycle in