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10 Neat Things

10 Neat Things

About Honeyberries

April 6, 2022 Canada's Local Gardener 2243 Views antioxidant-rich, berry recipes, fruit gardening, hardy shrubs, haskap, Honeyberries, Plant Care, Pollination, summer harvest, vitamin C

Photo: Hansicanada, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 1. What’s blue, grows on a bush and melts in your mouth?

10 Neat Things Edibles Plants Vines

About Grapes

March 31, 2022 Canada's Local Gardener 1740 Views grape colors, grapevine history, grapevine pruning, raisins, red wine, resveratrol, Sour grapes, sultanas, Vitis riparia, wild grapes

1. Sour grapes. The expression ‘sour grapes’ originated from Aesop’s fable about the fox and the grapes; a hungry fox

10 Neat Things Annuals Bulbs Flowers Perennials Trees & Shrubs

Early Spring Flowers

March 24, 2022 Shauna Dobbie 1677 Views crocus, daffodils, forsythia, hellebores, Pansies, prairie crocus, primula, Pulsatilla, scilla, snowdrops, spring flowers

1. Hellebores. One of the early spring flowers, Hellebores, are poisonous, as are many plants in the garden. The sap

10 Neat Things Annuals Edibles Flowers Plants

About Sunflowers

March 10, 2022 Canada's Local Gardener 2008 Views allelopathy, Fibonacci sequence, heliotropism, nuclear remediation, pollinators, sunflower growth, sunflower oil, sunflower roots, sunflowers, Ukraine

1. Sunflowers for Ukraine. Sunflowers grow well in Ukraine, owing to its hot dry summers. The flower was widely planted

10 Neat Things Edibles Plants

About Rosemary

March 3, 2022 Canada's Local Gardener 2134 Views Culinary Herbs, herb of remembrance, Herbal remedies, kitchen herb, Mediterranean herb, Propagation, Rosemary, rosemary flowers, sunlight, water drainage

1. Dew of the sea The name rosemary has nothing to do with roses or anyone named Mary. It is

10 Neat Things Plants Trees & Shrubs

About Big Trees

February 24, 2022 Canada's Local Gardener 1818 Views aspen grove, Big trees, coast redwood, dragon tree, giant redwood, Montezuma cypress, Pando, rain tree, sequoia, tallest trees

Sequoia National Park, California 1. What kind of big? You can measure the biggest trees as the tallest, the thickest

10 Neat Things Animals

About Cats

February 16, 2022 Canada's Local Gardener 3704 Views 10 Neat Things, cats, furry pets, Pets

1. The story of Molly, Tom and their confused friend, Gib. We all know that male cats are called Toms,

10 Neat Things Foliage Indoor plants Plants

About Peperomia

January 28, 2022 Canada's Local Gardener 1488 Views houseplants, Indoor Gardening, Light Requirements, Peperomia, peperomia flowers, peperomia species, plant of the year, plant propagation, succulent care, toxicity

Peperomia argyreia Watermelon 1. Plant of the year! Peperomia has been declared the plant of the year by the National

10 Neat Things Plants Trees & Shrubs

About Oaks

January 1, 2022 Canada's Local Gardener 1522 Views acorns, ancient oak trees, Celtic history, North American oaks, oak cupule, oak for smoking, oak symbolism, Oak trees, poison oak, Quercus

1. Quercus and the Celts Quercus is the botanical name for oak and it is from the Celtic language meaning

10 Neat Things

About Frankincense and Myrrh

December 23, 2021 Canada's Local Gardener 2125 Views ancient healing, Boswellia sacra, Commiphora myrrha, Frankincense, frankincense for cancer, gifts of the Magi, myrrh, myrrh for arthritis, Myrris odorata, resin harvesting

Boswellia sacra (image by Scott Zona / via Wikicommons) 1. Treasures from trees. The wise men from the East arrived

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