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Canada's Local Gardener Vol. 1 Iss. 1: Your Local Content

October 1, 2019November 20, 2019 Canada's Local Gardener Magazine 613 Views

Welcome to the provincial content for Canada’s Local Gardener! This content is available to those who have purchased a magazine.

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Manitoba Manitoba Gardener 

Garden of Shade and Mystery

May 12, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener Magazine 518 Views

Janice Safneck’s Charleswood Garden Not knowing what to grow in shade is often the lament of new gardeners who feel

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Ontario Ontario Gardener 

Ontario Garden: Michaela Nonhebel’s Garden

February 6, 2020February 12, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener Magazine 845 Views beautiful garden, Local content, Ontario Gardener

Beautiful Garden Michaela Nonhebel Ancaster, Ontario Michaela Nonhebel grew up working in the garden with her grandparents. They lived in

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Manitoba Manitoba Gardener 

Manitoba Garden: Irene Rajfur’s Garden

February 6, 2020February 12, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener Magazine 706 Views Local content, Manitoba Garden. beautiful garden

Beautiful Garden Irene Rajfur Garden City, Winnipeg “People always say, ‘Where are you going this year?’ and I say, ‘My

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Alberta Flowers 

Alberta Story: Canadian wild ginger

February 6, 2020February 12, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener Magazine 898 Views groundcover, Local content, wild ginger

If you’re looking for a groundcover for a shady area, look no further; Asarum canadense or Canadian wild ginger is your

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Alberta Trees & Shrubs 

Alberta Story: What to wrap?

February 6, 2020February 12, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener Magazine 812 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

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Edibles Ontario Ontario Gardener 

Ontario Story: Wild strawberry

February 6, 2020March 19, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener Magazine 1936 Views Edibles, Local content, wild strawberry

Have you ever considered a groundcover you can make jam from? Wild strawberries will multiply quickly to cover an area

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Alberta Trees & Shrubs 

Alberta Story: Willows are versatile and beautiful

February 6, 2020February 12, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener Magazine 1758 Views Local content, willow trees

All you have to do to start a new willow is tuck a cutting (or even a stick) in some

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Ontario Ontario Gardener Trees & Shrubs 

Ontario Story: Dawn redwood

February 6, 2020March 19, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener Magazine 1359 Views Local content, metasequoia, trees and shrubs

Dawn redwood or Metasequoia glyptostroboides. Is it an acquired taste, the conifer that loses its needles in the fall? Or

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Gardening for Beginners Manitoba Manitoba Gardener Trees & Shrubs 

Manitoba Story: Water for winter

February 6, 2020March 19, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener Magazine 649 Views Gardening for Beginners, Local content, watering before winter

It is heartbreaking to drive down the street in springtime and see dead evergreens, especially, cedars lining driveways. Homeowners planted

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Manitoba Manitoba Gardener Perennials 

Manitoba Story: Creeping phlox

February 6, 2020March 19, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener Magazine 583 Views groundcover, Local content, phlox

In springtime when the ground is bare, creeping phlox relieves the dullness with a flush of glorious pink, pristine white

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