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About Olives

November 5, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 3023 Views Amurca, ancient Greece, Mediterranean basin, olive curing, olive oil, olive trees, olive wood, Olives, peace symbol, Russian olives

1. Peace. Olive branches are a symbol of peace, and so we will look further into this species this week,

10 Neat Things Edibles Plants Trees & Shrubs

About Walnuts

October 8, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 4393 Views Black walnuts, Butternut trees, Juglone, Not a nut, Persian walnuts, Tree killer, Walnut dye, Walnut health risks, Walnut wood, Walnuts

1. Native or Persian? The walnuts you put in cookies and pies are probably Persian, or Juglans regia, also known

10 Neat Things Edibles Plants Trees & Shrubs

About Pears

October 1, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 3185 Views Boozy pears, Hardy fruit, Low maintenance trees, Pear nutrition, Pear wood, Pear-shaped, Pears, Perry pears, Poire Williams, Ussurian pear

1. Old fruit. Pears have been cultivated for at least 4000 years. The genus is believed to be from Western

Plants Trees & Shrubs

Lovely Lilac

May 12, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 3133 Views fragrant flowers, garden shrubs, growing lilacs, lilac care, lilac problems, lilac varieties, Lilacs, pruning lilacs, spring blooms, Syringa vulgaris

Is there anything lovelier than a lilac with its swooning scent that perfumes all the air around it? Lilacs are

Plants Trees & Shrubs

Garden Shrubs

May 12, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 3300 Views Amur Maple, Asian style shrubs, garden shrubs, Great Wall Bamboo, hardy shrubs, Morden Golden Glow Elder, Rock Cotoneaster, Sweetfern, Trost’s Dwarf Birch, Zen garden plants

Asian style shrubs My favorite pastime, when not working or gardening, is traveling! And when I do, I often end

10 Neat Things Flowers Plants Trees & Shrubs

Cherry Blossoms

April 2, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 5712 Views anthocyanins, black cherry, Cherry blossoms, chokecherry, Hanami, Japanese tradition, ornamental cherries, Prunus trees, Sakura zensen, sweet cherries

1. Hanami . It’s cherry blossom time in Japan! Hanami means “flower-viewing” and generally refers to taking in the beauty

Plants Trees & Shrubs

Cedar Trees in Winter

February 25, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 13715 Views Brandon cedar, cedar trees, evergreen trees, garden trees, moisture loss, planting cedars, tree care, tree dehydration, winter care, winter protection

Of all the trees in your garden, the one that causes the most grief over winter is the cedar. The

what in the garden should you wrap for winter

Trees & Shrubs

What to Wrap?

February 6, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 2764 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

Trees & Shrubs

Willows are Versatile and Beautiful

February 6, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 8141 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 6520 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

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