Alberta Trees & Shrubs 

Alberta Story: Willows are versatile and beautiful

February 6, 2020February 12, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener Magazine 2152 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 1619 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 739 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 650 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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Manitoba Manitoba Gardener Trees & Shrubs 

Manitoba story: Red Maples for Manitoba

February 6, 2020March 19, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener Magazine 1660 Views happy anniversary manitoba, Local content, mantioba 150 years, sugar maple tree

Let’s celebrate Canada’s heart beat with bred in Manitoba red maple trees. Plus 150 more wishes for Manitoba’s sesquicentennial anniversary.

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Flowers Gardening for Beginners Local Gardener Plants 

Seed heads

January 30, 2020January 31, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener Magazine 839 Views

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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Trees & Shrubs 

Dutch elm disease

January 29, 2020January 29, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener Magazine 764 Views tree diseases, trees and shrubs

By Dorothy Dobbie American elms and Dutch elm disease The native elm bark beetle, Hylurgopina rupifes, and the smaller European

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Trees & Shrubs 

Black Knot on Cherry Trees

January 27, 2020January 29, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener Magazine 1185 Views ornamental trees, tree disease, trees and shrubs

In the wintertime, black knot infections become increasingly apparent. Black knot is a fungus, Apiosporina morbosa, that colonizes members of

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Gardening Magic & Mysteries Trees & Shrubs 

How plants breathe

January 23, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener Magazine 477 Views

Understanding how plants breathe and preventing winter burn Plants breathe through their leaves. It is estimated that the total water

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Flowers Indoor & Tropical Plants 

Growing orchids in your home

January 9, 2020January 9, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener Magazine 810 Views

Growing orchids should be easy. They are a very forgiving plant if you understand it. Sadly, most are drowned by

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