Lilacs – Old is new again
By Gerald Filipski Tips for keeping your lilac happy:• Grow in full sun for the best flowering results.• Prune off
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Flowers
Dahlias in your garden
Dahlias are the national flower of Mexico, but they could be the queen of your garden. Luscious, flamboyant, but not
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Pig squeak
Pig squeaks have big shiny, paddle-shaped leaves surround a sturdy, 16-inch stalk that bursts into exuberant pink, sometimes white, flowers
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Aromatic Plants
When admiring a beautiful garden, people would always comment on the colours, or the symmetry. But how about the fragrance
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Alberta Story: Canadian 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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Seed heads
By Dorothy Dobbie It isn’t often that you grow a plant mainly for its seed heads, but some are so
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Growing orchids in your home
Growing orchids should be easy. They are a very forgiving plant if you understand it. Sadly, most are drowned by
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Pungent plants
Noteworthy pungent plants from around the world. Titan Arum (Amorphophallus titanum) The corpse flower is known as “the worst smelling
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Stinky flowers
There aren’t many things that smell better than walking through a beautiful garden and inhaling the intoxicating aroma of flowers
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Downy mildew killing impatiens
Common impatiens, Impatiens walleriana, have always seemed the most indestructible of plants. You stick them in the ground, give them
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