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Pergolas and Vines: Adding Emotion and Nourishment to Your Yard

July 16, 2018 Canada's Local Gardener 4020 Views garden, Local Gardener, pergola, Vines

I’m a sucker for a good pergola covered in vines. I was at a wedding this season at a golf

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Poppies Are Forever

July 12, 2018 Canada's Local Gardener 7445 Views Flowers, opium poppies, Perennials, poppies, wild flowers

Graceful and fragile, brilliantly coloured and stunningly beautiful, poppies call irresistibly from any garden they inhabit. There are over 100

Edibles Gardening for Beginners Plants

Growing Cucumbers

May 15, 2018 Canada's Local Gardener 6527 Views Edibles, Gardening for Beginners, vegetable planting

Ask anyone what vegetable is most often planted in their garden and the answer will probably come back, “tomatoes”. That

Edibles How-to Plants

Container Gardening: Peppers

May 15, 2018 Canada's Local Gardener 4312 Views container gardening, Edibles, Garden how to, gardener, vegetable gardening

Pretty patio peppers As the container gardening trend heats up, peppers are staking out their place as one of the

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Beauty in a Bulb: 6 summer magicians for glowing colour

May 10, 2018 Canada's Local Gardener 4653 Views Bulbs, Flowers, garden, Perennials, Plants

By Dorothy Dobbie If there is one thing that bulbs, especially summer bulbs, have in common it’s incandescent colour. The

Plants Wild Flowers

Invasive Species: Bighead Knapweed

May 9, 2018 Canada's Local Gardener 5366 Views Alberta Gardener, invasive species, knaphead, knapweed, magzine, noxious weed

Bighead Knapweed, or Centaurea macrocephala, is also known as armenian basketflower, globe centaurea, golden thistle, yellow or lemon fluff knapweed

Garden Design Ideas Perennials Plants

6 Must-Have Perennials

May 3, 2018 Canada's Local Gardener 6574 Views Garden Design Ideas, Local Gardener, Perennials

Sun or shade, to short and squatty or sassy show-stoppers here are our top six picks for your must-have

Edibles Gardening for Beginners Plants

Growing Herbs for the Kitchen Window

May 2, 2018 Canada's Local Gardener 3705 Views Edibles, herbs, kitchen herb garden

By Dave Hanson Few plants yield such a wellspring of delight as kitchen herbs. Herbs are purposeful, charming, full of

Edibles Gardening for Beginners Gardening with Kids Plants Seeds

Planting Herbs from Seeds

May 2, 2018 Canada's Local Gardener 3612 Views Garden project, Gardening With Kids, planting herbs, starting seeds

Gardening with kids: Starting herbs for spring By Tania Moffat During the frozen winter months my hands just itch to

Gardening for Beginners How-to Indoor plants Seeds

Growing Seeds Indoors

March 22, 2018 Shauna Dobbie 4576 Views flowers to start from seeds, Gardening for Beginners, growing seeds indoors, hardening off, starting seeds

Nothing serves as a rite of passage for novice gardener more than the impassioned, ever-hopeful activity of growing tiny seeds

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