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Garden and Caring for Plants
Growing and Caring for plants involves providing them with the right conditions to thrive, which includes attention to watering, light, soil, temperature, and occasionally pruning or fertilizing.
By consistently providing appropriate care and attention, you can help your plants thrive and enjoy the beauty and benefits they bring to your home or garden.
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Acid Loving Plants That Like Acidic Soil
If you have acidic soil which is below a pH of 7, but ideally hanging out at around 5.5, you could have great ground…
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Plants that Attract Monarch Butterflies
Monarch butterflies are superb pollinators, and if they are fed plants they enjoy, they will pollinate your entire garden. Butterflies require two kinds of…
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Magnolia: Plant of the Month
The Saucer Magnolia is probably the best known and most widely planted variety in the Ottawa area, so named for its giant saucer-shaped flowers.…
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Plants That Love The Sun
Plants that love the sun may provide vitality and colour to bare regions in the landscape. Before selecting plants, determine where the sun shines…
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Flowering Perennials for Four Seasons of Interest
Flowering perennials, carefully curated to combine varying heights, colours, and textures, make the most intriguing gardens. For a beautiful, low-maintenance addition to your garden,…
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Lilac types- Plant of the Month
Lilacs are one the great Ottawa landscape plants! There are many reasons to love them with their sweet perfume and those beautiful amethyst –…
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Spectacular Annuals for Containers
Annuals for containers are great for novice gardeners or anyone who wants to add interest and colour to their porch or patio. The most…
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Care and Use Colorful Coleus Plants
Coleus is ideal for anyone who wants color in a hurry – in the garden, around the patio or as an indoor plant. There’s…
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Types of Garden Shrubs
Among the bewildering lists of shrubs, certain names stand out as new and unusual, or, on the other hand, tried and familiar. These include…
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Care For The Salvia Plant: Flower, Medicinal and Culinary
The more than 900 species more commonly known as sages are related to Nepeta (Catmint) and Monarda (Bee Balm). The common sage The common…
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Janet Craig Dracaena: Low Light Houseplant
Dracaena Janet Craig has been a favourite indoor workhorse for decades, often used as a floor plant in interior conditions or mass planted in…
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How To Make A Terrarium
Terrariums make great additions to any room. There are endless options for variety, decorations and plants. They can be assembled in minutes and will…
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How To Grow And Care For the Popular Jasmine Plant
The Jasmine plant (Jasminum polyanthus) is a beautiful plant that smells great. It grows well in containers, as a hanging plant, or over a…
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Bringing Vegetables Outside
While I am trying to encourage my vegetables to get started, I am still reluctant about bringing vegetables outside. I have succeeded with some,…
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How To Grow And Care For Calibrachoa – Million Bells
You’ve seen the Calibrachoa, a tender perennial commonly known as “Million Bells.” You’ve enjoyed this plant in the nightshade family filling containers and baskets…
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How To Grow Calla Lily
Calla lily, also known as Zantedeschia aethiopica, belongs to the family of Araceae, a native to South Africa, Lesotho, and Swaziland. This trumpet-shaped flower…
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My Spring Garden
My spring garden is bursting with new life. Isn’t this the most glorious time of the year? I am overwhelmed by how green and…
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Propagating Peonies Flowers to Stand Out in Any Garden
Peonies are a wonderful, lush addition to any garden. With their gigantic, radiant, colourful blooms and delicate greenery, they are certainly a feast for…
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How To Care For The Appealing Fuchsia Plant
Our fuchsias of today still carry the original grace but the beautiful blooms are much larger and in showy colors.
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Hardening Off Plants Definition
What is Hardening Off? Hardening Off is the act of progressively acclimating an indoor plant to the outdoors before transplanting it outside. This gradual…
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Easy Care Pothos Plant
The Pothos is one of the – “Best indoor plants for clean air.”
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Tropical Hibiscus and Hardy Hibiscus
Hibiscus ornamentals include varieties that bloom profusely for months, with eye-catching blooms in a variety of colours up to 30 cm wide. Of the…
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Trumpet Vine Growth, Care and Pruning
The trumpet vine, hummingbird vine or Trumpet Creeper vine is the common name for Campsis radicans pronounced (kamp’-sis), which belongs to the family Bignoniaceae.…
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Tomato Cotyledons and Pruning Roses
They have their little seed leaves (tomato cotyledons) waving at me and are all reaching for the light. I am continuing to leave them…
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