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Animals Birds Flora & Fauna Local Gardener

A beautiful haunting

February 22, 2023March 22, 2023 info@pegasuspublications.net 82 Viewsacid rain, Animals, Bird Studies Canada, birder, Canadian Lakes Loon Survey, Canadian one dollar coin, feathered friends, hunting loons, incubation, lake birds, loon, Loonie, Sherries Versluis, tremelo-call, wail-call, yodel

Feathered Friends with Sherrie Versluis Living in Canada is a great thing for nature lovers. We are so fortunate to

Flora & Fauna Garden Design Ideas Gardening for Beginners Gardening with Kids Local Gardener Manitoba Plants

Coreopsis

February 22, 2023March 22, 2023 info@pegasuspublications.net 146 Viewsbedbug, coreopsis, insect, koris, Plants

Coreopsis pleases everyone! People love it for its sunny, long-lasting blooms. Birds love it for its seeds and butterflies, and

Animals Garden Design Ideas Garden Pests Gardening for Beginners Gardening How-to Gardening with Kids Local Gardener Wild Critters

What insects are in your backyard?

February 22, 2023March 22, 2023 info@pegasuspublications.net 76 ViewsAnimals, backyard, insect, lady beetle, ladybug, red lily beetle, robert wrigley, soldier beetle

By Robert Wrigley It was a late afternoon when I decided to relax by reading a book in my backyard

10 Neat Things Edibles Garden Design Ideas Gardening for Beginners Gardening with Kids Local Gardener Plants

10 Neat Things about Rhubarb

February 21, 2023March 22, 2023 info@pegasuspublications.net 620 Viewsedible plants, Plants, rhubard

1. The bitter truth about rhubarb. Rhubarb lovers may lament it and disagree, but the truth is that

Beautiful Gardens Flora & Fauna Garden Design Ideas Gardening for Beginners Gardening How-to Local Gardener Magazine Issue

6 soft and fuzzy plants

January 30, 2023March 22, 2023 info@pegasuspublications.net 142 ViewsDusty miller, lamb'sear, Plants, Purple velvet plant, Swedish ivy, Woolly thyme

Story & photos /Dorothy Dobbie When we think plants along with soft and fuzzy or velvety leaves, Lamb’s ear springs

Animals Garden Helpers Local Gardener

Slugs

January 30, 2023March 1, 2023 info@pegasuspublications.net 188 ViewsAnimals, gardening helper, slugs

Nobody likes slugs. Well, nobody except, maybe, five-year-old boys. For gardeners, they chew holes in foliage and leave a very

Animals Local Gardener

Lookalike butterflies: Monarchs and viceroys

January 30, 2023March 1, 2023 info@pegasuspublications.net 147 Viewsbutterflies, monarch, viceroys

Doesn’t mean you have to disparage viceroy butterflies, though, the butterflies that look an awful lot like monarchs except for

Animals Local Gardener

Inebriated animals and insects

January 30, 2023March 1, 2023 info@pegasuspublications.net 127 ViewsAnimals, Birds, insects

Do the birds and the bees get a little drunk sometimes? They certainly seem to, at least some of them.

Gardening for Beginners Gardening How-to Local Gardener Plants

Growing peas

January 30, 2023March 1, 2023 info@pegasuspublications.net 158 Viewsedible plants, peas

By Dorothy Dobbie Technically and botanically, peas are a fruit, because their seeds are developed from the ovary of the

Gardening How-to Local Gardener Plants

Growing blueberries

January 27, 2023March 20, 2023 info@pegasuspublications.net 92 Viewsblueberries; gardener, blueberry

By Shauna Dobbie They are delicious and nutritious, being full of anthocyanins (which are good for you). They’re also native