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Growing Alpine Plants, aka Rock Gardening: Getting Started
Learn the history of rock gardens and how to grow alpine plants in your garden. Discover the unique growing conditions and design tips for success.
Ideas for Long Blooms in Small Spaces
Discover a variety of plants that bloom for weeks, from hydrangeas to clematis, perfect for adding color to your garden all year round.
The Ultimate Guide To Garden Mulching
Many gardeners aren’t aware of the myriad benefits mulching can bring to your garden. If you’re looking for healthier soil, fewer pests, stronger plants, and a more attractive garden, then mulch could very well be the answer.
Maintaining Gooseberry Bushes
Discover expert advice on saving and rejuvenating gooseberry bushes, including tips on shade, soil, watering, diseases, and pruning for optimal growth.
Toxic Plants for Dogs and Cats, and Safe Flowers
Learn the toxic and pet friendly plants and flowers for cats, dogs, horses and other animals. Keep your four-legged family safe with this list of plants.
Don’t Compost Tomato Plants
Learn how to save seeds from your favorite tomatoes and overcome challenges in your garden, including poor germination and location issues.
Wood Betony, Stachys officinalis
Learn about Stachys officinalis 'Hummelo' and 'Pink Cotton Candy', beautiful and low-maintenance plants attracting pollinators to your garden.
Is Cucumber A Fruit Or Vegetable?
Discover the answer to the age-old question of whether cucumber is a fruit or vegetable, delving into horticultural, botanical, and culinary perspectives.
Gardening in the Month of October
Discover expert recommendations for your fall garden. Learn about planting bulbs, storing dahlias, overwintering annuals, and more for a beautiful spring garden.
What to do and not do in your Fall Garden
Prepare your garden for winter success with these must-do fall tips, and steer clear of common mistakes for a thriving garden next year!
Botanical Art
Discover the rich history and significance of botanical art in capturing plant specimens with accurate drawings. Engage with botanical art enthusiasts and artists.
A Water Feature For Every Garden
Discover why water elements are crucial in landscaping and how to choose the perfect water feature for your garden. Dive in now!
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Hardening Off: Last Stop Before Planting Out
Discover a simpler method for hardening off seedlings and creating protective environments for your plants to avoid sunscald and promote healthy growth.
Tips For Making Landscape Mounds And Berms
Landscape berms and mounds are an easy and attractive way to add interest to your yard and landscape. Building them isn’t complicated.
Grow a Garden Full of Memories
Celebrate loved ones and honor ancestors by choosing specific plants that hold special meaning. Grow a garden full of cherished memories in your own backyard!
Favorite Easy-To-Grow Wildflower Combinations
Discover the best wildflower combinations like Zinnias and Cosmos for long-lasting blooms and attract bees, butterflies, and beneficial bugs to your garden. Easy to grow and perfect for colorful solutions in any space!
24 Flowers For September and October
Find the perfect fall-blooming flowers in September and October to add vibrant colors to your garden until first frost.
Tropical Hibiscus and Hardy HibiscusÂ
Hibiscus are hardy perennials, while others are annuals, shrubs, or tropical plants. Hibiscus plants are grown for a variety of uses.
Plants That Love The Sun
Plants that love the sun may provide vitality and colour to bare regions in the landscape. Read on for ideas.
Plants that Attract Monarch Butterflies
Choose the right plants for your monarch butterfly garden. If you feed them plants they like, they will pollinate your entire garden.
Gardening In Small Spaces
Discover how to optimize your small garden space with layers of plants and create stunning color combinations for year-round blooming.
Spectacular Annuals for ContainersÂ
Annuals for container gardening are great for novice gardeners or anyone who wants to add interest and colour to their porch or patio.
Flowering Perennials for Four Seasons of Interest
Flowering perennials, carefully curated to combine varying heights, colours, and textures, make the most intriguing gardens.
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American Elder
American Elder provides an incredible summer floral display. At least 50 species of songbirds relish its fruit. Discover more.
Red Malabar Spinach and Alyssum
To eat my Red Malabar spinach, I pull the leaves off the vine at staggered intervals and enjoy it in a salad or as a treat in a stir-fry.
Canada Milk Vetch
Attract hummingbirds, birds, butterflies and bees with Canada Milk Vetch – a beautiful flower perfect for bouquets, heavy clay soils and winter flowerpots. Perfect for restoration gardens, erosion control and dry climates.
Tomato Blight: Identification and Treatment
Tomato blight refers to a family of pathogens caused by fungi which spreads through foliage. We discuss how to recognize and control it.
How To Grow A Coffee Tree Indoors and Out
A coffee bean tree can be an excellent, attractive, thriving indoor house plant. We discuss many aspects of coffee bean plant care.
Fall Harvest is a great time that only comes once a year!
Explore the vibrant colors and flavors of fall harvests, from root vegetables to fruits and grains. Learn about traditions, culinary uses, and economic impacts.
Sunflowers are Nutritional, Long Summer Bloomers
Sunflowers are versatile plants that provide a long summer bloom for the perennial border or cutting garden.
Prairie Dock
Silphium Terebinthinaceum displays its bright yellow flowers on tall stems in late summer. They attracts pollinators, birds.
For Vegetable Gardeners
Veggie Bites allowed me to share my own trials and tribulations so I could make it easier for other vegetable gardeners.
Fall Bulb Design: Easy, Colorful Combinations
Fall-planted bulbs are some of the easiest ways to add impactful colour to your spring garden.
Veggie Bites – Roses
My next big chore is to protect my roses. All of my roses are hardy, and most are on their own roots, so they do not need a lot of help.
Slender Blazing Star
Slender Blazing Star is best to plant with slow-growing perennials or as a border plant. Discover more about this non-competitive plant.
Tomato Leaf Curl: Virus, Causes & Remedies For Tomato Leaves Curling
Learn how to identify and treat Tomato Leaf Virus with home remedies and preventive measures to protect your tomatoes and other plants with Plant Care Today! Learn how to identify and safely treat Tomato Leaf Virus with home remedies and preventive measures to protect your tomatoes and other plants with Plant Care Today! Read how to detect, prevent, and treat tomato leaf virus to avoid plant die-off caused by leaf curling, flower/fruit drop and many more symptoms.
Grow a Garden Full of Memories
Celebrate loved ones and honor ancestors by choosing specific plants that hold special meaning. Grow a garden full of cherished memories in your own backyard!
Common Blue Violet Is an Offical Flower
Common Blue Violet is a ground cover that provides an early nectar source for pollinators. Read more about this official state flower.
Rain Barrel Tips
Rain barrels are a great way to collect water to use on your lawn and garden. Here are tips on how to save on your water bill.
Eight Winter Gardening Ideas
Gardening doesn't have to stop just because it's winter. With some planning and creativity, you can grow winter plants and vegetables, spruce up your …
Peperomia Care, Propagation and Varieties
The Peperomia plant is an easy care favourite houseplant, with attractive foliage which helps clean the air. Learn how to care and propagate.
Spring Garden into Summer
Get valuable insights on tick prevention, caring for viburnums, and transplanting herbs and vegetables in the warm spring weather. Don't miss out!
Canada’s Green Acres: Finding Your Perfect Farm for Sale
British Columbia's vineyards to Quebec's dairy farms, Canada offers a variety of rural properties. We delve into provincial regulations on foreign ownership.
On Saving Tomato Seeds and Using Hügelkultur
In saving tomato seeds for almost 5 decades, I learned that drying seeds on paper towel works, but it’s a hassle detaching the seeds.
GROWING AND CARING FOR GREEN BEANS
When it comes to growing beans, there are many different types of beans that can be grown in your garden or even inside the house in a container.
17 Best Bathroom Plants, How to Choose and Use
We discuss the merits of 17 best bathroom plants, some suitable for low light or dark bathrooms. Ideas for decoration and placement also.