Gardening

Winter weeks are a good time to contemplate the changed growing conditions in Canadian gardens. Warm winters with longer frost-free periods and record-breaking summer heat with erratic rain can turn a garden upside down. It’s […]

With eager plans for trips coming up, there’s still an opportunity to address gardening problems that are best solved in autumn. Don’t we all want more and better peonies? And how about giving the lawn […]

It’s finally summer and we should enjoy the moment, while considering how to get the best from roses blooming in the garden right now. But the early arrival of fall bulb catalogues suggests the intriguing […]

After a long winter, the butterflies of spring and summer are already on the wing, returning from their winter sojourn and headed your way. Providing key plants to suit their appetites ensures that you’ll have […]

With no petals to distract us, winter is a good time to consider basic issues such as a thinning lawn. If repeated fertilizing is at best a temporary solution, consider a more lasting renovation. As […]

Preparing for days in a warmer climate, take some time to review how the garden tolerated the heat wave of the past summer. New strategies for sustaining plants through excessive heat and rain will be […]

Once again at home, summer is a familiar setting of colourful blooms, soft breezes and yourself in a lounge chair. But what’s that in the air? Could it be a perfume so intoxicating that it […]

Welcome home to a spring garden already on its own blooming schedule. In this impatient season, you can count on the earliest spring flowers from deeply scented hyacinth lilacs. But don’t rush the roses with […]

You might be in a warm climate while your garden is under snow; or at home and gazing out the window at the bare bones of winter trees. The ornamental features of a winter garden […]

If you want to return from a winter journey to a garden full of spring bloom, you’d best get busy in autumn. Despite the flurries soon to fall, there’s still time to get spring-blooming bulbs […]