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10 Neat Things 

10 Neat Things: About Peonies

May 20, 2021May 21, 2021 Canada's Local Gardener Magazine 2814 Views 10 Neat Things, Flowers, peonies, Perennials

1. What’s so great about peonies? Peonies are drought tolerant, deer resistant, fragrant, hardy to Zone 2 and they can

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Rafflesia arnoldii

Flowers Plants 

Pungent plants

July 22, 2019 Canada's Local Gardener Magazine 1487 Views Flowers, pungent plants, stinky 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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Flowers Plants 

Stinky flowers

July 22, 2019July 22, 2019 Canada's Local Gardener Magazine 3502 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

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Flowers Plants 

Beguiling Begonias and its other species

January 25, 2019February 8, 2021 Canada's Local Gardener Magazine 1980 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

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In the lush green beds of the backyard, the Victory Orangery greenhouse is barely visible.

Manitoba Gardener 

Tim Evans’ garden for sharing

November 21, 2018 Canada's Local Gardener Magazine 1976 Views beautiful garden, Canada, featured story, Flowers, gardener magazine, Manitoba, Manitoba Gardener, Perennials, Tim Evans, Winnipeg

The river rolls lazily by Tim Evans’ Assiniboine-side home, imparting a dreamy quality to this romantic garden. Round beds of

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Flowers Perennials Plants 

Poppies

July 12, 2018February 8, 2021 Canada's Local Gardener Magazine 3201 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

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Bulbs Flowers Plants 

Beauty in a bulb: 6 summer magicians for glowing colour

May 10, 2018February 8, 2021 Canada's Local Gardener Magazine 1978 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

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Ontario Gardener Perennials Plants 

Easy-care Perennials

November 27, 2017March 1, 2019 Canada's Local Gardener Magazine 4080 Views easy-care, Flowers, garden, low maintenance, Ontario Gardener, Perennials, Plants

These easy-care perennials are the old reliables of the garden. It’s not that they live forever, their lifespan can be

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Flowers Manitoba Gardener Plants 

Taking on the Martagon

November 24, 2017November 21, 2017 Canada's Local Gardener Magazine 2190 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

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Gardening for Beginners Gardening How-to Manitoba Gardener 

Putting the garden to bed

November 2, 2017February 12, 2019 Canada's Local Gardener Magazine 1344 Views fall cleaning, fall plants, Flowers, Garden how to, Gardening for Beginners, Manitoba Gardener, putting garden to bed, tropical plants

Saying good night to the garden By Dorothy Dobbie We always speak of “putting the garden to bed” as though

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