Perennials

10 Neat Things 

10 Neat Things: About Peonies

May 20, 2021May 21, 2021 Canada's Local Gardener Magazine 2055 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

Read more

Gardening for Beginners Gardening How-to Plants 

Drought-tolerant plants

February 12, 2019February 12, 2019 Canada's Local Gardener Magazine 1501 Views annuals, drought tolerant plants, Gardening for Beginners, gardening how-to, Perennials

Plants have several different ways of dealing with drought. For example, some, like cactus and other succulents, store water in

Read more

Alberta Gardener 

Gardening passion of Debbie Huitema

December 18, 2018September 6, 2019 Canada's Local Gardener Magazine 1209 Views Alberta Gardener, annuals, beautiful garden, Perennials

When Debbie and George Huitema moved into their home in south west Calgary 25 years ago, they waited eight years

Read more

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 1628 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

Read more

Photo Album 

Wildflowers

November 14, 2018 Canada's Local Gardener Magazine 1463 Views Perennials, prairie flowers, wildflowers

Wildflowers have that special power to delight and surprise us, maybe as we are not responsible for putting them there.

Read more

Ontario Gardener 

Eco = beauty

November 12, 2018 Canada's Local Gardener Magazine 1125 Views beautiful garden, eco-friendly garden, edible plants, Ontario Gardener, Perennials

      Proof that any garden can be beautiful, this Oakville oasis is primarily composed of plants that are

Read more

Alberta Gardener 

The Schlosser garden of Calgary Teeming with life, brimming with love

November 1, 2018 Canada's Local Gardener Magazine 1280 Views Alberta Gardener, annuals, beautiful garden, Calgary Alberta, garden oasis, Perennials

You know a garden has real magic when the potentillas plant themselves. That’s what happened in the garden of Cathy

Read more

Alberta Gardener 

Gardens, gardens everywhere!

November 1, 2018November 1, 2018 Canada's Local Gardener Magazine 1392 Views Alberta Gardener, beautiful garden, beautiful greenery, garden paths, Perennials, Sherwood Alberta

Jon and Pat Brehaut share a passion for gardening. It’s more than a hobby; it’s relaxing and deeply satisfying. “Gardening

Read more

Flowers Perennials Plants 

Poppies

July 12, 2018February 8, 2021 Canada's Local Gardener Magazine 2377 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

Read more

Bulbs Flowers Plants 

Beauty in a bulb: 6 summer magicians for glowing colour

May 10, 2018February 8, 2021 Canada's Local Gardener Magazine 1511 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

Read more