Plants Archives

Monday, March 23, 2026

What is that?! 10 Neat Things about fasciation

You’re walking through the garden when you spot something truly strange: a stem that’s flat like a ribbon, or

If you planted cloves last fall, now’s the moment you’ve been waiting for. Harvesting garlic isn’t complicated, but a

Begonias

As the days grow shorter and the air begins to cool, gardeners can rely on late summer annuals to keep

Dividing perennials is good for your pocketbook.

How to increase your perennial garden By Shauna Dobbie You love your perennial garden soooo much, you’d like to

Leaves of 'Bloodgood' Japanese maple. Photo by Jonathan Billinger, CC-SA 2.0.

Graceful small trees for every zone: Japanese maples and lookalikes The beautiful Japanese maple (Acer palmatum) is a prize for

It feels counterintuitive to plant a row of seeds, nurture them to life, and then snip off half their

Is there any flower more romantic than the peony? With their frilly petals, delicate colours, and swoon-worthy scent, they

10 neat things about weeding smarter, not harder Let’s be honest: few of uslove weeding. But staying ahead of

By Dorothy Dobbie Ken Macdonald’s garden in Regina isn’t the acreage he imagined managing when he went to agriculture college

They brighten roadsides and frustrate botanists.Nicknamed “Damned Yellow Composites” or DYCs by plant enthusiasts around 100 years ago, these