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 plant. No silver or mottled
Canada's Local Gardener
February 6, 2020
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What to Wrap?
What in the garden should you wrap for winter? Nothing. Wrapping can do more harm than good as wrapping materials such as burlap can actually
Canada's Local Gardener
February 6, 2020
Wild Strawberry
Have you ever considered a groundcover you can make jam from? Wild strawberries will multiply quickly to cover an area and, while they don’t fruit
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February 6, 2020
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 soil and it will try
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February 6, 2020
Dawn Redwood
Dawn redwood or Metasequoia glyptostroboides. Is it an acquired taste, the conifer that loses its needles in the fall? Or is it just for folks
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February 6, 2020
Creeping Phlox
In springtime when the ground is bare, creeping phlox relieves the dullness with a flush of glorious pink, pristine white or pale mauve. In some
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February 6, 2020
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. By Ian Leatt I am
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February 6, 2020
About Container Gardening
1. Vegetables. It used to be that just about the only edibles that people grew in containers were herbs and tomatoes. Now you can grow
Canada's Local Gardener
January 31, 2020
Seed Heads
By Dorothy Dobbie It isn’t often that you grow a plant mainly for its seed heads, but some are so spectacular, you may want to
Shauna Dobbie
January 30, 2020
Dutch Elm Disease
By Dorothy Dobbie American elms and Dutch elm disease The native elm bark beetle, Hylurgopina rupifes, and the smaller European elm bark beetle, Scolytus multistriatus,
Canada's Local Gardener
January 29, 2020