Alberta Story: Canadian wild ginger
If you’re looking for a groundcover for a shady area, look no further; Asarum canadense or Canadian wild ginger is your
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Plants
Alberta Story: What to wrap?
What in the garden should you wrap for winter? Nothing. Wrapping can do more harm than good as wrapping materials
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Ontario Story: Wild strawberry
Have you ever considered a groundcover you can make jam from? Wild strawberries will multiply quickly to cover an area
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Alberta Story: Willows are versatile and beautiful
All you have to do to start a new willow is tuck a cutting (or even a stick) in some
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Ontario Story: Dawn redwood
Dawn redwood or Metasequoia glyptostroboides. Is it an acquired taste, the conifer that loses its needles in the fall? Or
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Manitoba Story: Water for winter
It is heartbreaking to drive down the street in springtime and see dead evergreens, especially, cedars lining driveways. Homeowners planted
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Manitoba Story: Creeping phlox
In springtime when the ground is bare, creeping phlox relieves the dullness with a flush of glorious pink, pristine white
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Manitoba story: Red Maples for Manitoba
Let’s celebrate Canada’s heart beat with bred in Manitoba red maple trees. Plus 150 more wishes for Manitoba’s sesquicentennial anniversary.
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Seed heads
By Dorothy Dobbie It isn’t often that you grow a plant mainly for its seed heads, but some are so
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Dutch elm disease
By Dorothy Dobbie American elms and Dutch elm disease The native elm bark beetle, Hylurgopina rupifes, and the smaller European
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