Saturday, April 19, 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

Plants

Aromatic Plants

February 18, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 5588 Views annual herbs, aromatic plants, fragrant flowers, lavender, perennial flowers, scented garden, scented geranium, spring garden, summer blooms, sweet pea

When admiring a beautiful garden, people would always comment on the colours, or the symmetry. But how about the fragrance

10 Neat Things Annuals Flowers Indoor plants Plants Wild Flowers

About Love-ly flowers

February 14, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 3239 Views bachelor's button, bleeding hearts, forget-me-not, heartsease, love in a mist, passionflower, romantic flowers, sweet pea, sweetheart roses, violets

1. Love in a mist. (Nigella.) This freely self-sowing, cheery annual takes its romantic love name from the airy, lacy bracts

Gardening Science Plants

Are Plants Smart?

February 12, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 1960 Views auxins, jasmonates, plant behavior, plant communication, plant defense mechanisms, plant intelligence, plant learning, plant memory, plant sensitivity, smart plants

As a plant person, you already know that plants have sensitivities, many beyond our understanding. But are plants smart? You

10 Neat Things Plants Seeds

Starting Seeds

February 7, 2020 Shauna Dobbie 3593 Views damping off, gardening tips, indoor seed starting, Plant Care, seed germination, seed scarification, seed soaking, Seed stratification, seedling growth, starting seeds

1. Inhibitors. Starting plants from seeds are not always easy. Some seeds, like tomatoes, come from the mother plant coated

(Photo credit: Wasp42)

Flowers Local Gardener Plants

Canadian Wild Ginger

February 6, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 4174 Views groundcover, Local content, wild ginger

If you’re looking for a groundcover for a shady area, look no further; Asarum canadense or Canadian wild ginger is your

what in the garden should you wrap for winter

Trees & Shrubs

What to Wrap?

February 6, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 2829 Views Alberta story, Local content, protecting plants in winter, should you wrap trees in winter

What in the garden should you wrap for winter? Nothing. Wrapping can do more harm than good as wrapping materials

Edibles Plants

Wild Strawberry

February 6, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 8365 Views Edibles, Local content, wild strawberry

Have you ever considered a groundcover you can make jam from? Wild strawberries will multiply quickly to cover an area

Trees & Shrubs

Willows are Versatile and Beautiful

February 6, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 8246 Views bio-fuel, Erosion control, gardening with willows, pussy willow, silver willow, weeping willow, willow propagation, willow trees, willow varieties, willows

All you have to do to start a new willow is tuck a cutting (or even a stick) in some

Local Gardener Trees & Shrubs

Dawn Redwood

February 6, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 6601 Views conifer trees, Dawn Redwood, deciduous conifers, fast-growing trees, gardening with redwoods, Gold Rush dawn redwood, hardy Zone 5, Metasequoia glyptostroboides, ornamental trees, tree varieties

Dawn redwood or Metasequoia glyptostroboides. Is it an acquired taste, the conifer that loses its needles in the fall? Or

Perennials Plants

Creeping Phlox

February 6, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 5438 Views balanced fertilizer, Creeping Phlox, First Nations medicinal plants, flowering plants, garden borders, landscape gardening, Phlox history, rockery plants, spring blooms, Victorian flower symbolism

In springtime when the ground is bare, creeping phlox relieves the dullness with a flush of glorious pink, pristine white

← 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}

Loading Comments...

Write a Comment...

Email (Required)

Name (Required)

Website