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10 Unique Gifts For Gardeners

December 1, 2023 Shauna Dobbie 3216 Views best gift for gardeners, Christmas gift, gardener gift, holiday gift

When you’re tearing your hair out looking for something unique to check off another person on your gift list, always

Garden Design Ideas How-to

Tips for Adding Colour to Winter Gardens

November 8, 2023 Shauna Dobbie 2321 Views berry, colorado blue spruce, winter garden

If you long for colour outdoors in the winter garden, don’t despair. Study your garden over the next few months

Edibles How-to Plants

Asparagus: Health benefits of a spring sprout

May 31, 2023 Canada's Local Gardener 2263 Views asparagus, Dorothy Dobbie, healthydiet, spring sprout

By Dorothy Dobbie Love your first feed of asparagus in springtime? No wonder. Here’s a short list of the health-giving

How-to Local Gardener

The Tricky Tomato: Fruit or vegetable?

May 23, 2023 Canada's Local Gardener 2647 Views Fruit or vegetable, garden tips, gardening, Homegrown produce, Lycopene, tomatoes, vegetable gardening

By Heather Klein Is the tomato a fruit or is it a vegetable? This age-old question regarding the tomato actually

How-to Plants

How To Grow Your Own Tea Garden

April 17, 2023 Canada's Local Gardener 2348 Views chamomile, Drying herbs, gardening, Herbal tea, Homegrown herbs, Organic tea, Sun tea, tea garden, Tea making, traditional uses

By Tania Moffat Tea is a wonderful and healthy beverage. It can soothe most of what ails us — lack

Annuals How-to

Test Your Garden Knowledge: Seeds and pollination

April 17, 2023 Canada's Local Gardener 2008 Views seeds, test, tulips

What’s the buzz about pollination? Test your knowledge by answering true or false to the following questions. 1. Seedless watermelons

Jacob's ladder with hostas and pulmonarias.

Garden Design Ideas How-to Plants

Shade Plants: A rewarding plant of the spring garden

February 26, 2023 Dorothy Dobbie 2305 Views tropical plants

Story & photos by Dorothy Dobbie In my garden, under the shade of a young green ash, a garden is

Annuals Garden Design Ideas Garden Info Gardening for Beginners How-to Perennials Plants

6 Soft and Fuzzy Plants

January 30, 2023 Canada's Local Gardener 6276 Views Dusty miller, lambs' ears, Plants, Purple velvet plant, Swedish ivy, Woolly thyme

Story & photos by Dorothy Dobbie When we think plants along with soft and fuzzy or velvety leaves, Lamb’s ear

Gardening for Beginners How-to Local Gardener Plants

Peas: Sweet and crunchy

January 30, 2023 Canada's Local Gardener 2302 Views edible plants, peas

By Dorothy Dobbie Technically and botanically, peas are actually a fruit! Their seeds are developed from the ovary of the

How-to Local Gardener Plants

Growing Blueberries

January 27, 2023 Canada's Local Gardener 2732 Views edible berries

By Shauna Dobbie They are delicious and nutritious, being full of anthocyanins (which are good for you). They’re also native

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