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  • Well mulched new garden with young plants and rocks

    The Ultimate Guide To Garden Mulching

    Mulching your garden is an excellent way to improve soil health, reduce weeds, retain moisture, fewer pests, stronger plants, enhance plant growth and a…

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  • yellow, red, and green fall leaves as a reminder for your fall gardening checklist

    Gardening in the Month of October

    With fall well set-in and winter around the corner, here are some ideas and recommendations for caring for your garden in October

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  • A pick rose on a commemorative plaque

    All About Roses: Expert Tips for Growing Roses

    Recommended links on Roses and their care

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  • Pink and purple hydrangea with dozens of big ball-like flowers

    Hydrangea Care: an Easy Guide for Beginners

    You’re likely familiar with the big, impressive blooms of the hydrangea. What you might not know, though, is how simple hydrangea care can be.…

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  • Wildflowers with a sunny backdrop

    Favorite Easy-To-Grow Wildflower Combinations

    Zinnias and Cosmos are one of the easiest and most prolific annual combinations for endless blooms from summer through fall. Bonus: This combination makes…

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  • Bright red poinsettia flowers and petals

    The Beauty of the Poinsettia Plant

    Poinsettia, Euphorbia pulcherrima, is distinguished by having a single female flower that lacks petals and frequently has sepals. Separate male flowers surround the sepals,…

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  • Lantana camara flowers, pink and yellow

    How to Grow and Care for a Lantana Plant

    ‍ Lantana plants are low-maintenance and easy to care for with the right materials. Lantanas can grow in any sunny location with well-draining soil.…

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  • Stacked flowers of the white turtlehead

    Discover the White Turtlehead

    White Turtlehead, Chelone glabra, has masses of beautiful white hooded flowers at the ends of the stems from late summer to mid-fall, which are…

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  • Gardening in the Month of September

    For Ottawa – Zone 5

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  • Blue vervain flowering stalks

    Blue Vervain

    Blue vervain, or American vervain, is a hardy and drought-tolerant plant native to North America. It is a traditionally important plant, widely distributed in…

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  • Herbs hanging in kitchen to dry

    How to Dry Herbs

    While freshly picked herbs produce the best flavours, there is always an abundance that cannot be used in a single season. The next best…

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  • Hoary Vervain

    Hoary Vervain

    The hoary vervain, or Verbena stricta, is a type of herbaceous plant falling under the Verbenaceae family. The flowering plant is most commonly found…

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  • snake plant in containers

    Sansevieria (Snake) Plant Varieties

    Snake Plants are available in various shapes, colors, and sizes, so you are sure to find one that’s right for you. The following are…

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  • Monarch butterfly on rough blazing star

    Rough Blazing Star Attracts Pollinators

    Rough Blazing Star features fluffy, deep rose-purple flowers arranged in 1″ button-like heads. Blooming begins, as one would assume, at the top of the…

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  • Pilea plant ina pot againsta. white background

    Pilea Plant Grows Rapidly and Pleases

    The pilea, also popular as the Chinese money plant, is a beautiful treasure. It’s cheerful and aesthetically appealing, and quite easy to care for.…

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  • A field of sunflowers ready to seed

    Sunflowers are Nutritional, Long Summer Bloomers

    Sunflowers are versatile plants that provide a long summer bloom for the perennial border or cutting garden. They are also effective in a native…

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  • Common milkweed flower at its peak

    Common Milkweed Host Monarch Butterflies

    Milkweed, of which there are about 14 different types in Canada, is the only host plant for monarch butterflies. In summer, the female monarch…

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  • Monarch butterfly on a coneflower echinacea

    Coneflowers Add Brilliant Colours to Your Garden

    Echinacea is an excellent flower to grow in a garden because its brilliant colours stand out against the green surroundings. They make an eye-catching…

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  • A purple and white Passion Flower with a new budding flower next to it

    Passion Flower: Growing The Passiflora Vine

    The Passion Flower is listed as hardy in USDA hardiness zones 5-9; however, it may actually struggle in zone 5 and may not survive…

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  • A Red and Orange daylily

    Seven Easy Outdoor Plants for Everyone

    These seven easy outdoor plants will set you on your way to sprucing up that backyard in no time.  And they require very little…

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  • A cluster of bright Red Geranium flowers

    Geraniums are Easy Care Summer Darlings

    There are two types of plants that most people refer to as “geraniums”. There are “true geraniums”, which are hardy, native and wild plants…

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  • A close up of an agastache scrophulariifolia

    Purple Giant Hyssop is Great for Pollinators

    Purple Giant Hyssop sets soft plumes of the palest purple flowers that top out at 6 feet, soaring above most other plants in the…

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  • Blue Baptisia australis flower

    Baptisia is a Sure Bet

    Baptisia australis is beautiful and a sure bet to be introduced into your garden. Slow to develop, it is not uncommon to wait 2…

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  • False sunflower in glorious yellow in tilt shift lens

    False Sunflower is a Hardy, Easy Bloomer

    False sunflowers bloom throughout summer in the perennial border or cutting garden. It also works well in a native plant or wild garden, as…

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