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1. Easy to grow, hard to grow. For some people, Christmas cactus (Schlumbergera) grows like a backyard weed. For others, it’s a disappointing, frustrating challenge.
1. Bulking up. While many wildlife hibernate or hide away in dens in winter, others just bulk up by eating themselves silly all through fall.
1. The darkest month. December in Canada is the darkest month. Toronto gets about 8.8 hours of daylight in December. Edmonton gets more than an
Best Christmas Gift for Gardeners 1. Die or pause? No, diapause. To survive the brutality of freezing winters, many insects enter a state of suspended
1. What’s a berry? As you will know by now if you read 10 Neat Things frequently, only some berries are berries; the rest are
1. It’s a loss not a gain of colour. Deciduous leaves turn colour in fall because of a loss of chlorophyll, not because they pick
1. The pukak. Under the winter’s collection of fallen snow, there is a secret world where small animals and insects spend the long, cold months
1. Neaten up. Add this to your to-do list in fall. Even the messiest gardener (that’s me) needs to get out and remove any diseased
There are gardeners who would rather die than be seen with common annuals like impatiens or petunias in their yards, but what else provides so
1. Genus and epithet In Latin, African violets are Saintpaulia ionantha. They are named after Baron Walter von Saint Paul-Illaire, a German colonial official, who
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