GardeningCalendar Newsletter
Seasonal guidance for Canadian gardeners. A personal briefing for your own garden.
Every subscriber receives GardeningCalendar Classic—seasonal guidance shaped by Canadian hardiness zones, along with gardening events, community contributions, and a little garden fun. Upgrade to My Garden Briefing for $40 CAD per year and add regular plant-specific care reminders and guidance shaped by the plants you grow, your local conditions, and your garden priorities.
GardeningCalendar Classic
Seasonal guidance, events, and community
Free forever
Delivered on the 1st and 15th of each month—with no login, credit card, or commitment required.
- ✓Seasonal guidance for your Canadian hardiness zone
- ✓Timely planting and garden opportunities
- ✓Relevant weather, pest, and disease watches
- ✓Events near you
- ✓Events worth travelling for
- ✓Online gardening events
- ✓Community contributions and garden humour
- —Plant-specific care reminders and personalized priorities
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My Garden Briefing
Personalized care reminders for the plants you grow
$40 CAD / year
Tell us what you grow. My Garden Briefing adds a personalized section to your GardeningCalendar newsletter, highlighting the care reminders, priorities, and timely opportunities most relevant to your plants and garden.
Your garden, understood
- ✓Everything in GardeningCalendar Classic
- ✓Regular plant-specific care reminders
- ✓Prioritized recommendations and useful quick checks
- ✓Weather-sensitive guidance based on your postal code
- ✓Advice adjusted for your hardiness zone and season
- ✓Plant stage, growing environment, cultivar, and current concerns considered when provided
- ✓Explanations suited to your gardening experience and priorities
- ✓A Garden Profile you can update as your garden changes
Focused on what matters now
- ✓All your active plants are evaluated
- ✓Urgent and time-sensitive care is prioritized
- ✓Unnecessary and repetitive reminders are avoided
Powered by GardeningCalendar Plant Intelligence
Many gardening newsletters know the season. This one also knows your plants.
Our Plant Intelligence system considers each plant’s care needs alongside your postal code, Canadian hardiness zone, local weather, season, and the garden priorities and details you provide.
It then identifies what deserves attention now—from weather-sensitive care and seasonal maintenance to pest watches, pruning opportunities, and useful quick checks. Instead of sending every gardener the same generic checklist, it prioritizes guidance relevant to your plants and current conditions.
Behind the scenes, structured Plant Definitions describe how plants respond to conditions. Reviewed care rules and current garden context determine which recommendations apply, and an editorial layer turns the approved recommendations into clear, readable guidance.
How My Garden Briefing works
Tell us what you grow
Add any plant to your Garden Profile. Include details such as cultivar, growing environment, growth stage, and current concerns when known.
We evaluate your garden
Plant Intelligence compares your plants’ care needs with your location, hardiness zone, local weather, season, and profile information.
Receive your briefing
Your newsletter highlights the most useful care reminders, priorities, quick checks, and timely opportunities for your garden.
Your care reminders may include
- ✓Protecting weather-sensitive plants when conditions warrant
- ✓Watering or drainage checks informed by local weather
- ✓Timely pruning and deadheading opportunities
- ✓Relevant pest and disease inspections
- ✓Harvest, bloom, and seasonal-care reminders
- ✓Quick checks for plants needing less immediate attention
- ✓Confirmation when no special action is currently needed
Care reminders are included in scheduled newsletters. My Garden Briefing does not currently provide real-time alerts between issues.
My Garden Briefing is $40 CAD per year, billed annually.
Receive GardeningCalendar Classic plus regular guidance and care reminders personalized for your plants and garden.
Gardening guidance disclaimer
My Garden Briefing provides general gardening information and care reminders, not professional horticultural diagnosis or guaranteed results. Recommendations are based on the plant and garden details you provide, along with available weather and seasonal information, which may be incomplete or change. Observe the actual conditions in your garden, and always follow product labels and applicable local regulations before using any treatment. Care reminders are delivered in scheduled newsletters and are not real-time alerts.
Additional premium care briefings may be introduced as the service develops. The newsletter may contain light, relevant advertising that helps support GardeningCalendar.ca.