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How To Grow and Care For Bougainvillea
So let’s try and give a general overview of growing Bougainvillea, its care, blooming, light, water, soil, origin and more…
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Gardening Hand Tools for Planting and Cultivating
Just how important are garden hand tools? Well, you wouldn’t have much of a garden without them. Hand planting tools constitute the backbone of…
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Prayer Plant Care – How To Grow Maranta Leuconeura
Maranta leuconeura is known as the “Prayer Plant.” The reason why? Marantas fold their leaves into a huddle at night and go to “sleep.”…
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How to Care and Propagate The Superb Calathea
Calathea is a tropical plant also known as the Zebra Plant or Zebrina Plant (Calathea zebrina). These plants are used mainly for their vibrant…
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Stone Garden Path Ideas For Garden Walkways
Adding a stone garden path in the garden can accentuate, connect and tie the landscape together. You don’t need a pro for ideas for…
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7 Reasons To Install Landscape Garden Lighting
There are many good reasons to install landscape garden lighting in your garden. In this article, we will look at guiding your path, safety,…
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Create A Plant in a Pot Masterpiece
Sometimes we try to complicate things. In much of my life I’ve found the KISS principal serves me well – Keep It Simple Stupid.…
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How To Care, Grow And Use Tomatillos
The Tomatillo plant, an odd-looking distant tomato cousin and one of the essential ingredients in Mexican cuisine, especially recipes of green tomatillo salsa. These…
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Ikebana Workshop – Notes from the Old Ottawa South Garden Club
The Old Ottawa South Garden Club recently sponsored a workshop on Ikebana—the traditional Japanese art of flower arrangement. The workshop was led by Elizabeth…
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The Indoor Cane Corn Plant
Summary: Dracaena fragrans corn plant, grown in many forms, usually multiple plants of staggered heights, hardy indoors when acclimated. Fragrans is the solid green…
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Tips On How To Clean Leaves On Houseplants
You may be surprised to learn that grooming your plants can be one of the most time-consuming parts of caring for them, and with…
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Care For Schefflera Arboricola – Dwarf Umbrella Tree
Schefflera makes a wonderful tropical houseplant. They are attractive and easy to care for. They are also good indoor air purifiers. Schefflera actinophylla is the…
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3 Common Seed Starting Problems and How to Fix Them
Gardeners have asked how to be more successful with starting their own seeds and the problems usually boil down to simple, common mistakes. Here…
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Houseplants for the Bedroom
Unique indoor plants are the perfect solution to help purify the air and add serenity to your space. Plus, they can add natural color…
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Best Houseplants for the Kitchen
Sometimes we find a beautiful houseplant and have no idea on where to put it. Other times we have a space that needs filling…
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Top 10 North American Gardens Worth Traveling For
The list is an joint promotion of the Garden Council of Canada and the American Public Gardens Association. The list for 2017 (in alphabetical…
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2018 Garden Trends: Containers, Privacy, Pollinators
With a year of conferences, tests, trials and garden visits under our belts, we’re excited to tell you about the big ideas we think…
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How to Prepare Soil for Grasses
Soil Preparation for Grass Seed To prepare the soil for grass seed: Soil Preparation for Ornamental Grasses To prepare the soil for ornamental grasses:…
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Colour Your Garden World with Perennials
Notes from the Old Ottawa South Garden Club Nancy McDonald is a life-long gardener and the current Executive Director of the Master Gardeners of…
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Flowers with Vegetables: Beauty and the Eats
Master Gardener Judith Cox gave a presentation on how to grow flowers and vegetables together for beauty and food.
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Is a Pond Aerator the Silver Bullet for Your Pond Problems?
The bubbles rising from your aerator not only circulate the water, but also break up the surface tension as they break the surface. This…
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Keep Your Pond Healthy When You Got a Late Start
Even in winter, partial water changes can help to provide healthier, less polluted water for your be-finned friends. Do this very carefully, though, changing…
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Dealing with Duckweed in Your Pond
Once you’ve got the majority of the weeds out of the pond, though, you can go on to the second part of your attack,…
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Home Inspections: Why To Look At More Than Just The House
When you purchase a home, many buyers will opt to have a home inspection done on the property. This inspection can be very helpful…
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