Preventing Animals from Eating Your Bulbs
Squirrels, raccoons, chipmunks, moles and voles are known for digging up and eating tulip bulbs and crocus corms. They will go after other flower bulbs
Shauna Dobbie
February 13, 2026
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Forsythia
Forsythia, with its vibrant yellow blooms that emerge before the foliage, heralds the arrival of spring, brightening gardens even before the rest of the landscape
Shauna Dobbie
January 26, 2026
Top 10 Easy-Care Perennials
These easy-care perennials are the old reliables of the garden. It’s not that they live forever, their lifespan can be a mere five years. But
Canada's Local Gardener
November 13, 2023
Manitoba’s floral emblem, the prairie crocus
By Doug Collicutt One ritual of spring for many Manitoba garden enthusiasts is a visit to the Living Prairie Museum to see the crocuses.
Canada's Local Gardener
April 17, 2023
Garden of Maggie and Mike Connell
Garden of Maggie and Mike Connell, New Brunswick Story and photos by Shauna Dobbie Maggie’s garden explodes with life. Containers at ground and above ground
Canada's Local Gardener
January 27, 2022
Pungent Plants
Noteworthy pungent plants from around the world. Titan Arum (Amorphophallus titanum) The corpse flower is known as “the worst smelling flower in the world.” It
Canada's Local Gardener
July 22, 2019
Stinky Flowers
There aren’t many things that smell better than walking through a beautiful garden and inhaling the intoxicating aroma of flowers in bloom; unless of course,
Canada's Local Gardener
July 22, 2019
Beguiling Begonias and its Other Species
We have been growing begonias in our homes and garden for about three centuries. There are many, many hybrids in addition to the 1,400 different
Canada's Local Gardener
January 25, 2019
Tim Evans’ Garden for Sharing
The river rolls lazily by Tim Evans’ Assiniboine-side home, imparting a dreamy quality to this romantic garden. Round beds of tall flowers, their petals shifting
Canada's Local Gardener
November 21, 2018
Poppies Are Forever
Graceful and fragile, brilliantly coloured and stunningly beautiful, poppies call irresistibly from any garden they inhabit. There are over 100 species but they all have
Canada's Local Gardener
July 12, 2018