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
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Michaela Nonhebel’s Garden
Beautiful Garden Michaela Nonhebel Ancaster, Ontario Michaela Nonhebel grew up working in the garden with her grandparents. They lived in Germany and gardening helped get
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Lucille’s Garden
Lucille Crighton Toronto, Ontario People often talk about weaving texture, colour and form into the garden, making an educated guess about how a plant will
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The Ontario Rose Garden: Michel Giroux
The rose, adored for its beauty and grace, is perhaps the most romantic flower in the garden. This is why it’s called the queen of
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The White Pine
by Chris Conway Excerpt from The Lake used with permission from Great Plains Publications. The ragged breaks in the tree line at Lake of the
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February 5, 2019
A Living Laboratory
Evolving over the last 12 years, this garden has been a series of experiments in eco-friendly beauty – a living laboratory and library of plants
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November 12, 2018
Eco-Friendly Equals Beauty
Proof that any garden can be beautiful, this Oakville oasis is primarily composed of plants that are edible, fermentable and medicinal – an unusual palette
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November 12, 2018
The Garden at the End of the Road: A stunning Tobermory oasis
Story by Tania Moffat, photos by Veronica Silva, Ben Goedhart and Klaus Roder At the northern tip of the Bruce Peninsula in Ontario lies a
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Easy Care Houseplants: Part 3 of 3
Plants transform our living spaces indoors and out, but those that are invited into our homes do more for us than we do for them.
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Benefits of Mulch
Magic of mulch Mulch keeps soil moister, decreases weed germination and stabilizes soil temperatures, all of which makes your plants more productive. If you haven’t
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