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Annuals

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What’s New and What’s Hot: Trends for 2023

April 11, 2023 Canada's Local Gardener 1592 Views Cinquefoil, Fruit Salad Mango, Incarvilllea delavayii, Kangaroo Paw, Leucanthemum Carpet Angel, Oxalis corymbosa aureo reticulata, Oxalis versicolor, Petunia Evening Scentsation, Potentilla, Scarlet Dreams, Siberian Tiger Hosta, Sicilian Honey garlic, snapdragon, White Feather Hosta

Note: Seed produced by F1 hybrid plants may not produce offspring true to the parent. As the year unfolds, gardeners

Annuals Flowers Garden Design Ideas Perennials Plants

Coreopsis: A bright and cheery flower

February 22, 2023 Canada's Local Gardener 1196 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

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 3045 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

10 neat things about petunias

10 Neat Things Annuals Flowers Plants

About Petunias

July 27, 2022 Canada's Local Gardener 1937 Views edible plants, glowing plants, hybrid vigor, petunia colors, Petunias, Plant Care, pollinator plants, sun-loving plants, Supertunias, water hogs

1. The scent of a flower. Petunias have a heavenly scent in the early part of summer, before they have

10 neat things about wildflowers

10 Neat Things Annuals Edibles Flowers Foliage Plants Wild Flowers

About Native Wildflowers

June 30, 2022 Shauna Dobbie 1667 Views Baptisia australis, Black-eyed Susan, celandine poppy, gentians, Helenium autumnale, Joe Pye weed, milkweed, Native wildflowers, Purple coneflower, wood lily

1. Typhoid saviour. One of the native wildflowers, Joe Pye weed, boneset to some, and botanically Eutrochium (reclassified from Eupatorium a few

10 neat things about early spring flowers

10 Neat Things Annuals Bulbs Flowers Perennials Trees & Shrubs

Early Spring Flowers

March 24, 2022 Shauna Dobbie 1666 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 about sunflowers

10 Neat Things Annuals Edibles Flowers Plants

About Sunflowers

March 10, 2022 Canada's Local Gardener 1998 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 about nature's dyes

10 Neat Things Animals Annuals Perennials Plants

About Nature’s Dyes

November 4, 2021 Canada's Local Gardener 2173 Views cochineal dye, eco-friendly dyeing, indigo dye, madder root, marigold dye, natural dyes, organic colorants, plant-based dyes, Tyrian purple, vegetable dyes

1. Blue jean pea plant. A member of the pea family, Indigofera tinctoria, the plant that produces blue jean blue,

10 neat things about buying plants

10 Neat Things Annuals Edibles Flowers Foliage How-to Perennials Plants Trees & Shrubs Vines

Buying Plants

April 29, 2021 Canada's Local Gardener 2129 Views Buying plants, Garden centre, gardening tips, insect infestations, moss, plant health, plant labels, plant warranties, root-bound plants, yellowing leaves

1. Potted plants in bloom (1). At the garden centre, should you buy plants that are already blooming or not?

10 neat things about edible weeds

10 Neat Things Annuals Edibles Flowers Foliage Perennials Plants Wild Flowers

About Edible Weeds

February 3, 2021 Dorothy Dobbie 12380 Views 10 Neat Things, edible weeds

Purslane 1. Move over spinach. Purslane, sometimes called portulaca, is an edible weed. It has 10 times the Omega 3

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