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Red Maples for Manitoba

February 6, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 5053 Views happy anniversary manitoba, Local content, mantioba 150 years, sugar maple tree

Let’s celebrate Canada’s heart beat with bred in Manitoba red maple trees. Plus 150 more wishes for Manitoba’s sesquicentennial anniversary.

10 Neat Things Edibles Plants

About Container Gardening

January 31, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 3547 Views bean varieties, cantaloupe for small spaces, carrot varieties, container gardening, cucumber in containers, growing corn in pots, growing vegetables in containers, lettuce for containers, onions in pots, pumpkins in containers

1. Vegetables. It used to be that just about the only edibles that people grew in containers were herbs and

Gardening for Beginners Plants Seeds

Seed Heads

January 30, 2020 Shauna Dobbie 3337 Views allium seed heads, clematis seed heads, garden beauty, hairy balls plant, milkweed, monarch butterfly, nigella seed heads, ornamental arrangements, poppy seed heads, Seed heads

By Dorothy Dobbie It isn’t often that you grow a plant mainly for its seed heads, but some are so

Trees & Shrubs

Dutch Elm Disease

January 29, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 2873 Views tree diseases, trees and shrubs

By Dorothy Dobbie American elms and Dutch elm disease The native elm bark beetle, Hylurgopina rupifes, and the smaller European

Trees & Shrubs

Black Knot on Cherry Trees

January 27, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 4340 Views ornamental trees, tree disease, trees and shrubs

In the wintertime, black knot infections become increasingly apparent. Black knot is a fungus, Apiosporina morbosa, that colonizes members of

10 Neat Things Annuals Edibles Flowers Foliage Perennials

About Herbs

January 24, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 4361 Views 10 neat things about herbs, how to preserve herbs, what are herbs

1. Herb or ‘erb? Dropping the h-sound at the beginning of “herb” is an American affectation, so if you’re from

10 Neat Things Annuals Flowers

10 Neat Things about Annuals

January 10, 2020 Shauna Dobbie 3742 Views 10 Neat Things, annuals, type of plant, what are annuals

1. Live fast, die young. In the plant world, an annual is a plant that completes its life cycle in

Flowers Indoor plants Plants

Growing Orchids in your Home

January 9, 2020 Shauna Dobbie 3452 Views Dendrobium orchids, Epiphytic plants, Indoor Gardening, indoor plants, orchid flowers, orchid light requirements, orchid watering, Orchids care, Phalaenopsis orchids, plant humidity

Growing orchids should be easy. They are a very forgiving plant if you understand it. Sadly, most are drowned by

10 Neat Things Indoor plants Plants

10 Neat Things about House Plants

January 3, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 3504 Views African violets, air-purifying plants, house plants, Indoor Gardening, Light Requirements, Orchids, Plant Care, plant pests, Tillandsias, Watering Tips

Shade dwellers. One of the most important things to understand about house plants is that most are shade or partial

How-to Plants Seeds

Plant Seeds or Buy Plants?

November 27, 2019 Canada's Local Gardener 3058 Views container gardening, continuous harvest, Edible gardening, flower seeds, gardening tips, perennial gardening, seed germination, Seed planting, soil temperature, vegetables

For the past decade, gardeners have been under the spell of major seed producers who continue to deliver ever more

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