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Editor's Pick Feature Story Perennials Plants

Top 10 Easy-Care Perennials

November 13, 2023 Canada's Local Gardener 6959 Views easy-care, Flowers, garden, low maintenance, Ontario Gardener, Perennials, Plants

These easy-care perennials are the old reliables of the garden. It’s not that they live forever, their lifespan can be

Manitoba’s Floral Emblem: The prairie crocus

April 17, 2023 Canada's Local Gardener 2466 Views crocus, Flowers

By Doug Collicutt One ritual of spring for many Manitoba garden enthusiasts is a visit to the Living Prairie Museum

Beautiful Gardens New Brunswick

Garden of Maggie and Mike Connell

January 27, 2022 Canada's Local Gardener 1693 Views Flowers, garden aesthetics, gardening innovations, Maggie Connell, Medicinal plants, New Brunswick garden, raised beds, rural property, sustainability, vegetable gardening

Garden of Maggie and Mike Connell, New Brunswick Story and photos by Shauna Dobbie Maggie’s garden explodes with life. Containers

Spring Gardener

Spring Gardener for you

April 21, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 4022 Views Flowers, garden inspiration, garden planning, gardening community, gardening tips, how-to gardening, outdoor spaces, plant trends, planting ideas, Spring gardening

We all know and appreciate mother nature’s glory, and in our own garden we create a piece of tranquil heaven.

Rafflesia arnoldii

Pungent Plants

July 22, 2019 Canada's Local Gardener 3383 Views Flowers, pungent plants, stinky plants

Noteworthy pungent plants from around the world. Titan Arum (Amorphophallus titanum) The corpse flower is known as “the worst smelling

Stinky Flowers

July 22, 2019 Canada's Local Gardener 6927 Views Flowers, Plants, stinky plants

There aren’t many things that smell better than walking through a beautiful garden and inhaling the intoxicating aroma of flowers

Beguiling Begonias and its Other Species

January 25, 2019 Canada's Local Gardener 3382 Views annuals, begonias, Flowers, solenia

We have been growing begonias in our homes and garden for about three centuries. There are many, many hybrids in

In the lush green beds of the backyard, the Victory Orangery greenhouse is barely visible.

In the lush green beds of the backyard, the Victory Orangery greenhouse is barely visible.

Manitoba Gardener

Tim Evans’ Garden for Sharing

November 21, 2018 Canada's Local Gardener 3665 Views beautiful garden, Canada, featured story, Flowers, gardener magazine, Manitoba, Manitoba Gardener, Perennials, Tim Evans, Winnipeg

The river rolls lazily by Tim Evans’ Assiniboine-side home, imparting a dreamy quality to this romantic garden. Round beds of

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Flowers Perennials Plants

Poppies Are Forever

July 12, 2018 Canada's Local Gardener 6250 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

Bulbs Flowers Plants

Beauty in a Bulb: 6 summer magicians for glowing colour

May 10, 2018 Canada's Local Gardener 3826 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

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