Saturday, March 29, 2025

Home
Plants
- Annuals
- Perennials
- Edibles
- Bulbs
- Seeds
- Flowers
- Foliage
- Indoor plants
- Trees & Shrubs
- Vines
- Roots
- Weeds
- Herbs
- Plant diseases
Animals
- Birds
- Pets
- Wild Critters
- Insects
- Garden Helpers
- Garden Pests
Beautiful Gardens
- Alberta
- British Columbia
- Manitoba
- New Brunswick
- Nova Scotia
- Ontario
- Newfoundland
- P.E.I.
- Quebec
Garden Info
Podcast
E-Shop
10 Neat Things

Garden Info

Garden Design Ideas How-to

Tips for Adding Colour to Winter Gardens

November 8, 2023 Shauna Dobbie 1281 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

Gardening for Beginners

How to Grow Mushrooms at Home

May 25, 2023 Canada's Local Gardener 1962 Views DIY gardening, Fungi, Gardening for Beginners, Growing mushrooms, Home gardening, Indoor Gardening, Mushroom cultivation, Mushroom spawn, Mushroom varieties, Sustainable growing

By Tania Moffat Growing mushrooms is unlike growing any other vegetable. Fungi grow from spores rather than seeds. These spores

Flowers Gardening for Beginners Perennials Plants

8 Perennials That Attract Our Friends the Bees

March 30, 2023 Canada's Local Gardener 1659 Views Asters, Bee Balm, Bees, Black-eyed Susan, Catmint, crocus, Eco-friendly gardening, gardening, Goldenrod, Perennials, pollinators, Purple coneflower, snowdrops, Sustainable gardens

Are you looking for ways to attract more bees to your garden this year? More and more we are learning

Flowers Gardening for Beginners Perennials Plants

Peonies are the perfect flower

March 27, 2023 Canada's Local Gardener 1462 Views herbal therapy, peonies, Peony medicine, perfect flowers

When peonies burst into bloom, they scent the air with their musky fragrance. Everyone with a garden should have

Garden Design Ideas How-to Plants

Shade Plants: A rewarding plant of the spring garden

February 26, 2023 Dorothy Dobbie 1341 Views gardening; House; Plant

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

Garden Design Ideas Gardening for Beginners Indoor plants Plants

A House isn’t a Home Without a Plant

February 26, 2023 Canada's Local Gardener 1129 Views carbon dioxide, house plant, houseplants, NASA research, VOCs, Watering houseplants

By Tania Moffat Plants transform our living spaces indoors and out, but those that are invited into our homes do

Annuals Flowers Garden Design Ideas Perennials Plants

Coreopsis: A bright and cheery flower

February 22, 2023 Canada's Local Gardener 1164 Views bedbug, coreopsis, insect, koris, Plants

Coreopsis pleases everyone! People love it for its sunny, long-lasting blooms. Birds love it for its seeds and butterflies, and

Animals Gardening for Beginners Gardening with Kids Insects

What Insects are in Your Backyard?

February 22, 2023 Canada's Local Gardener 1436 Views Animals, backyard, insect, lady beetle, ladybug, red lily beetle, robert wrigley, soldier beetle

By Robert Wrigley It was a late afternoon when I decided to relax by reading a book in my backyard

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 2953 Views Dusty miller, lamb'sear, 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 1262 Views edible plants, peas

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

← Previous
Next →

Event Calendar

Upcoming Events

Home
Event Submission
Rates and policies
Contact Us
Login
Terms of Use & Privacy Policy

This site contains product affiliate links. We may receive a commission when you visit the site and click any links. This, however, has no bearing on our content. We will do our best to provide high quality content for you.

Subscribe now to your Local Gardener magazine. Dismiss

Manage Cookie Consent

To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behaviour or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.

Functional Functional Always active

The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.

Preferences Preferences

The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.

Statistics Statistics

The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.

Marketing Marketing

The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.

Manage options Manage services Manage {vendor_count} vendors Read more about these purposes

View preferences

{title} {title} {title}