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Barren Strawberry Quick Growing Guide

Barren Strawberry has masses of beautiful yellow daisy flowers from early to late spring. Read our Quick growing Guide

Choosing Flowers to Match One’s Personality: Tulips vs. Orchids

Add meaning and beauty to any event or home decor with a flower that perfectly suits your personality. Discover why tulips vs orchids are popular blooms and how their symbolism can be used to show feelings of love and friendship. Plus, learn the deeper meaning behind their colors including red, yellow, pink, white, purple, orange, and even black!

How to Care and Propagate The Superb Calathea

Discover the wonderful Calathea varieties, their care and their dazzling array of colorful leaves for your landscape and indoor plant! Get to know their care, lighting, watering and fertilizing needs – as well as propagation tips – to enjoy their beauty and reap the rewards of their circadian rhythm.

To quote Bruce Cockburn, "I'm going to the country…sunshine smile on me."

A listing of local Eastern Ontario events related to sustainable food production including a winery, a herb festival, garlic festivals and a lavender farm.

Preparing Roses for Winter

Get expert advice on how to protect your roses this winter with netting, breaking off weak branches, and mulching. Discover why snow is the best insulator, and take tips from Judith on preparing for the Annual General Meeting, Christmas Craft shows, inventory and more.

Outdoor Living Ideas

By putting in a bit of time and effort into improving your garden, you’ll make it an ideal spot for outdoor living with family and friends.

Early Goldenrod

Grow Early Goldenrod, Solidago juncea, a resilient herbaceous perennial with bright yellow flowers. This adaptable wildflower of the Asteraceae family withstands poor, dry soils and full sun, and with minimal maintenance, can fill spaces with its profusion of flowers and slen,der shrub-like appearance. Learn when and how to care for it and how to distinguish it from its cousins!

Homemade Insecticidal Soap Recipe Choices

Homemade insecticidal soap for insect control and killing garden pests on plants. Here are recipe choices for all natural insecticidal soap.

Beneficial Insects and Good Bugs For Your Garden

Beneficial insects – aka good bugs – help pest control, save money on pesticides and insecticides, and are needed for your garden to flourish.

Choosing Plants for a Butterfly Garden

We discuss how to choose the right plants for your butterfly garden and establish smart practices to provide a safe haven for butterflies.

Learn How To Grow Sedum Plants

Growth and spread of Sedum plants vary significantly from species to species. They may spread several feet but only grow a few inches high.

Discover the White Turtlehead

Discover White Turtlehead, a beautiful & perennially blooming wetland plant. Attractive to hummingbirds & bees, it's used in shade, rain, wildflower, & native plant gardens. Perfect for cutting & its leaves are deer-resistant. Medicinal properties & uses by Native Americans, too!

Is a Pond Aerator the Silver Bullet for Your Pond Problems?

Oxygenation of your pond using a good pond aeration system is crucial for the health of your pond’s ecosystem including the water, fish and plants.

Releasing Bees from Their Cocoons

Bees released from their cocoons seemed very attracted to the sweet-smelling lilacs, and there were primulas and tulips nearby. .

Veggie Bites – Cattails and American Bittersweet

My American bittersweet vine has beautiful orange berries on it at the moment and it will be a good addition to my bird-feeding resources.

Cilantro – Love it or Hate it

Cilantro is a wonderful herb to grow because you get two herbs in one. It matures as seeds to Coriander. Their flavours are very different.

Gardening for American Goldfinches

Discover the best plants to attract American goldfinches to your garden and learn about their vegetarian diet preferences.

Easy Care Pothos Plant

Pothos plant, Epipremnum aureum, is one of the best plants for clean indoor air. It is easy care, versatile for pots, hanging baskets, totems.

Bumblebees and Seeds

I really I never realized how much I did not know about bumblebees. And, I am testing the pepper seeds to check their viability. was viable.

How to Strike Harmony Between Appliance Care and Nature

Veggie Bites – Partial Shade Planter

My partial shade planter is starting to grow. I put a cage in the center and then planted peas; they will climb up the cage.

Join a Horticultural Society

Join a horticultural society to meet other gardeners, learn how to prepare your fairy garden for winter, and find out what to do with damaged pots! Get useful tips for keeping your garden alive and beautiful during the winter months and make sure your plants are in top shape for spring.

10-10-10 Fertilizer: Use And Benefits

Generally, you won’t go wrong applying 10-10-10 all-purpose, complete, balanced fertilizer. Explore usage, mixing with water and precautions.

Softened Water and Your Garden

Softened water can be severely damaging to plants. Using softened water should be done in a controlled manner, and avoided whenever possible.