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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.

In Defence of Earwigs in Your Garden

Discover the real story behind earwigs – beneficial insects often misunderstood in gardens. Learn how to control and trap earwigs effectively.

Chokeberry is a Desirable Shrub

Chokeberry produces fantastic fruit, and it is easy to grow. It is an ornamental beauty with beautiful colours throughout the seasons.

Rose of Sharon

Rose of Sharon are often planted to provide fresh flush of late season colour after other trees and shrubs have finished blooming.

Virginia Mountain Mint Growth Guide

Virginia Mountain Mint is a vigorous, long-lasting plant ideal for wildlife gardens. It attracts pollinators. Read the Quick Growth Guide.

How Proper Landscaping Can Prevent Basement Flooding

Learn how a quality landscaping service can protect your basement from costly flood damage through proper lawn grading, French drains, mulch management, and more.

Foxglove Beardtongue

Penstemon digitalis bell-shaped flowers are nectar-rich, which makes them one of the best plants to attract hummingbirds.

Plants to Help Improve Indoor Air Quality

There are many aspects that contribute to indoor air quality including outdoor air quality, climate, geology, and chemicals in indoor spaces.

How to Grow the Delicate Harebell

Admire the delicate and graceful harebell wildflower with its deep bluish-purple flowers, native to North America and Europe, that are eaten raw, used to make dye, and believed to give witches the power of transformation. A perfect addition to the rock garden that grows through summer and fall, and pollinated by hummingbirds, butterflies and bees.

Sense of Sound in the Garden

Uncover the delight of bird calls, wind rustling leaves, and more. Embrace the peaceful ambiance of nature's sounds in your garden today!

Giving and Getting: Why we Volunteer

Gardeners are specialists in growing things that enrich the soul and the body too.

Sense of Smell in the Garden

Gardening is a multisensory experience. When you walk into a garden, discover and experience scented pleasures. All senses can be stimulated in the garden.

Controlling Flea Beatles In The Garden

Learn about the destructive flea beetle and how to identify, prevent, and minimize damage to your prized vegetables in your garden.

9 Small Native Trees for Urban Gardens

Explore a collection of native trees that add beauty to urban landscapes while supporting local ecosystems with flowers and fruits that attract pollinators and birds.

Care Requirements For Shrimp Plant

Enjoy this easy to care for evergreen shrub that produces masses of blooms all year long – the Shrimp plant (Justicia brandegeana)! Discover its hardiness zones, cultural needs, and varieties for an eye-catching show in your garden.

Tips On How To Clean Leaves On Houseplants

Learn the importance of grooming houseplants and how to keep them healthy by cleaning leaves to catch pests and signs of illness early.

Prairie Dock

Silphium Terebinthinaceum displays its bright yellow flowers on tall stems in late summer. They attracts pollinators, birds.

A Quick Growing Guide for Miterwort

The Miterwort, Mitella diphylla, is the jewel of the spring shade garden. Consult our Quick Growing guide for this special shade plant.

Grass Leaved Goldenrod Adds Colour

Grass-Leaved Goldenrod is a colourful upright perennial. The bright yellow plants are suitable for cottage gardens, borders, and meadows.

Prevent Black Spot On Roses

Discover effective treatment for black spot on roses caused by fungal disease, prevention tips, and the fascinating medicinal uses of roses and rose hips.

Vegetable Soup and Stock

Put lettuce stumps in water to watch them grow. You can do this with almost all of your vegetables. Use them for vegetable soup and stock.

Swamp Rose Mallow

Swamp Rose mallow has exotic, oversized flowers that are very striking. New flowers can open every day from July to September.

End of Harvest, Winterizing My Garden Part 1

A walkthrough of some of the tasks Judith follows to winterize her vegetable and flower garden after the fall harvest.

Great blue Lobelia