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Stinky flowers

July 22, 2019July 22, 2019 Caroline Fu 4711 Views Flowers, Plants, stinky plants

There aren’t many things that smell better than walking through a beautiful garden and inhaling the intoxicating aroma of flowers

Downy mildew killing impatiens

March 1, 2019February 8, 2021 Caroline Fu 2054 Views disease killing impatiens, downy mildew, impatiens, what's wrong with my impatiens

Common impatiens, Impatiens walleriana, have always seemed the most indestructible of plants. You stick them in the ground, give them

Beguiling Begonias and its other species

January 25, 2019February 8, 2021 Caroline Fu 2378 Views annuals, begonias, Flowers, solenia

We have been growing begonias in our homes and garden for about three centuries. There are many, many hybrids in

poppies

Flowers Perennials Plants

Poppies

July 12, 2018February 8, 2021 Caroline Fu 4364 Views Flowers, opium poppies, Perennials, poppies, wild flowers

Graceful and fragile, brilliantly coloured and stunningly beautiful, poppies call irresistibly from any garden they inhabit. There are over 100

Bulbs Flowers Plants

Beauty in a bulb: 6 summer magicians for glowing colour

May 10, 2018February 8, 2021 Caroline Fu 2436 Views Bulbs, Flowers, garden, Perennials, Plants

By Dorothy Dobbie If there is one thing that bulbs, especially summer bulbs, have in common it’s incandescent colour. The

Flowers Manitoba Gardener Plants

Taking on the Martagon

November 24, 2017November 21, 2017 Caroline Fu 2783 Views asiatics, cultivars, Flowers, lilies, lillium, Manitoba Gardener, martagon, Plants

The wind whips the water and howls among the rocks. We leave its fury on shore, follow a zigzag path

The pharmacy in your garden

November 21, 2017 Caroline Fu 1701 Views garden, pharmacy, plant based medicine

Plants are far more powerful than most people give them credit for being. Their relationship to our health goes back

hard to kill houseplants

Flowers Indoor & Tropical Plants

Hard to kill houseplants (part 2 of 3)

November 14, 2017June 24, 2020 Caroline Fu 3034 Views african violet, dracena, house plants, indoor plants, Manitoba Gardener, tropical plants

Much research has been done on the benefits of keeping houseplants. Studies show plants make you happy and improve your

Bulbs Flowers Gardening How-to Plants

What bulbs to plant in fall

September 18, 2017February 8, 2021 Caroline Fu 1680 Views allium, Bulbs, daffodils, fall planting, Flowers, gardening how-to, tulips

Plant fall bulbs for a brilliant display in spring time Fall is the time to think about putting in your

garden stars month by month

Galliarda is also referred to as blanket flower and brown-eyed Susan.

Flowers Plants Trees & Shrubs

Garden stars month by month

August 10, 2017April 20, 2020 Caroline Fu 3761 Views Flowers, garden calendar, Plants, Trees

Spring is just around the corner and we are starting to plan our gardens. To make sure you have plants