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2007

Beautiful Gardening (Annual)
Early Spring (Planning)
Spring (Planting)

Summer (Growing)
Fall (Harvest)
Winter (Dreaming)

2006

Beautiful Gardening (Annual)
Early Spring (Planning)
Spring (Planting)

Summer (Growing)
Fall (Harvest)
Winter (Dreaming)

2005

Beautiful Gardening (Annual)
Early Spring (Planning)
Spring (Planting)

Summer (Growing)
Fall (Harvest)
Winter (Dreaming)

2004

Beautiful Gardening (Annual)
Early Spring (Planning)
Spring (Planting)

Summer (Growing)
Fall (Harvest)
Winter (Dreaming)


 

Beautiful Gardening (Annual) 07

A garden for living 6
The garden Time forgot 11
Room with a view: Lorna Ashton’s artistry 16
Sonja’s symphony in green and white 20
Dutch masterpiece 24
Capturing the outside from inside 29
Cottage garden in the city 34
A woodland legacy 37
Blooming Gail’s 41

Departments

Letters 5
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Early Spring (Planning) 07

The garden in 2007

Classy containers, more formality, colour
– that’s the outdoor look in 2007 16Plant combos to kill for 18What’s new, what’s hot for gardens 22
Where to find them 29
Garden centre picks 30

Garden features

Carpet a shady corner 10
Shrubs for you to love 14
The Yurkiws’ field of dreams 32
Bricks and a low-maintenance garden 35
Some derring-dos on the shop circuit 20

Features

10 years of Manitoba Gardener 12
Twig borer torments maples 31

Columns

Gardening 101 13
A risk-taker’s garden 19
Double your pleasure 38

Departments

Letters 5
Gardener’s Notebook
Garden plots for rent 6
Big awards for landscapers 6
Blight hits willows 7
Spruce under siege 8
Backyard design a winner 9
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Spring (Planting) 07

Garden features

Potted and besotted: a picture perspective 20
Garden stars – month by month 22
Keep it watered!
Irrigation agents 28
Sprinklers, slow soaks and coir 29
Fountains at play 30
Life and renewal in cottage country 39
A burst of colour in the woods 40
A grand sweep of sunny borders, sturdy blooms 43

Plants

Bringing the pond to life 12
Surprise yourself with a new tree 14
Garden rosarians rejoice 27
Grasses get the Wow! treatment 34

Features

Good reads for the gardener 16
Some pretty good ideas for plants and people 18
Mistakes that make a difference 33
Jeffries Nurseries at quarter-century 36
A frog he would a-wooing go
by Dorothy Dobbie 46

Columns

Ken Beattie’s Ground Rules 17
Starting on vegetables 32

Departments

Letters 5
Notebook
Kudos for ‘Barzella’, the Itoh tree lily 6
Roller caterpillar rolls across prairies 7
Weeding and feeding nature’s way 8
Lacoste’s four-season “experience” 9
Mesmerizing moss 10
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Summer (Growing) 07

Garden living

The sweet scents of summer 16
Party perfect 19
Rocks rock 24

Garden profiles

Heaven transplanted 29
Lots of living in West Kildonan 32

Features

A digital focus on flowers 10
Diagnosing leaf diseases 22
Organic mulch in your garden 36
Hi Ho Silver: up to speed with
artemisia 34

Columns

Room for a rainforest 13
Gardening 101 28
The Garden Philosopher 38

Departments

Letters 5
Notebook
Cat stoppers 6
Professionals in green industry 6
Using ‘Karl Foerster’ 6
Celebrating the classics 7
Groundcovers get book treatment 8
Garry Hilderman honoured
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Fall (Harvest) 07

Special features

Magic of mulch 13
A garden above 14
Attack of the Aphids 18
Combatting Cankerworms 19
Natural home remedies 20
Some buzz about bees 22
Best of the bugs 22
Gifts the don’t cost the earth 24
Which of these beautiful plants can harm your pet 26
Planting Companion 28
The bitte cost of de-icing our roads 37

Preparation and Planting

Help your plants survive the winter 11
Thirsty flowers? Build a bog 36

Features

The gardens of Teulon 29

Columns

Stress. desease and the Manitoba climate 12
Saving chipmunks from drowning 38

Departments

Letters 5
Notebook
Push mowers make a green comeback 6
Why apples fall 6
Blue plumed grass is a fall delight 6
Plant some early blooming bulbs ..7
Blue plumed grass is a fall delight 6
Working the garden soil 8
A special gardening book for kids 9
Giant labyrinth honours Carol Shields 10
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Winter (Dreaming) 07

Coming in November
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2006



Beautiful Gardening(Annual) 06

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Early Spring(Planning) 06

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Spring(Planting) 06

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Summer(Growing) 06

Garden living

Ray Normandeau’s heavenly vista 12
Fabulous finds for your garden room 18
Lisa Tober works with what she has 28

Focus on plants

Colours in the sun 11
Easy-to-grow cucumbers 16
Goats beard: summer performer 20
Stuff with fluff: heucharella and tiarella 22
Mediterranian herbs for a hot dry climate 24
Cool summer haven 25

Contents Features

Pruning basics 26
Peace grows at the border 30

Columns

Ground rules with Ken Beattie 17
Mid-season adjustments
Wendy Mackie at Asterlea 38
Strategies for extending spring
Departments
Letters 5
Notebook
Aphids 6
Green peace 6
Fusarium fungus 7
A poem to nature 7
Dragonflies and damselflies 8
Let’s clean up and be lovely 9
Bleeding hearts for the shade 10
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Fall(Harvest) 06

Garden living

Putting your best front forward 16
Garden gifting 27
Fabulously simple foundation gardens 25

Focus on plants

Fall colour 21
Chrysanthemum, the golden flower 36
New mum collection 37

Features

Emerald ash borer 12
Gardening 101 13
How to overwinter tender geraniums 14
Brandon blooms 30
Brandon garden tours 31

Columns

Toes to the rescue 38

DEPARTMENTS

Letters 5
Notebook
This beetle is on the march 6
Zesty zinnias 7
Overwintering plants in pots 8
Winterizing roses 8
Saskatchewan’s horticultural pioneers 9
Provincial bloom program 9
Black and silver in the garden 10
Feelin’ hot 11
Native plant finds 11
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Winter(Dreaming) 06

Garden living

Ash Street’s blooming sensation 32
Returning red to the perennial bed 22

Plants

Add a flowering shrub 10
A cutting garden 14
Exotic tropicals for the home 18
Grow your own pineapple plant 19
Spring bulbs to last until summer 20
A banner year in the garden

Features

Dealing with suckers 12
A green house for the holidays 16
Gardener gifts 26

Columns

Starting over 13
Gardening 101 28
The horse gene 38
with Wendy Mackie

Departments

Gardener’s notebook
Plant some pumpkins 6
Planting old seeds 6
“Bloom” winners 7
A spider with bite 7
Preserving fresh flowers 8
Keeping cut flowers 8
Seeds for the winter garden 9
Selections for 2007 9
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2005



Beautiful Gardening (Annual) 05

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Early Spring (Planning) 05

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Spring (Planting) 05

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Summer (Growing) 05

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Fall (Harvest) 05

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Winter (Dreaming) 05

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2004

 



Beautiful Gardening (Annual) 04

8A Charleswood treasure
Iris Kennedy’s private park
by Greg Klassen

14 A Wawanesa revival
Paying homage to a graceful heritage
by Albert Parsons

16 Sylvia Debaar’s joyful creation
A garden wonderland in Virden
by Arvel Gray

22 Where the sun shines just so
Growth and change in a
St. Vital garden
by Tricia Wasney

26 A St. James garden enthusiast
Hooked on plants and whimsy
by Carol Bailey

30 Putting down roots
Linda Stilkowski’s garden artistry
By Dorothy Dobbie

37 Garden aglow
The two faces of a Harvard
Avenue masterpiece
by Susie Strachan

40 The Hermitage
A riverside paradise near Lac du Bonnet
by Rick Durand

44 A Winkler masterpiece
The exuberant charm of a country
garden
by Carol Bailey

46 Anthony Steffes in North Kildonan
A flower arranger’s garden wizardry
by Robert Golinoski
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Early Spring (Planning) 04

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Spring (Planting) 04

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Summer (Growing) 04

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Fall (Harvest) 04

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Winter (Dreaming) 04

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