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Do You Have A Fall Gardening Checklist?
A fall gardening checklist is provided below to assist you in completing tasks. Take out your pen or pencil and jot down any ideas…
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Soil Calculator and Raised Garden Bed Basics
It is imperative that soil contains vitamins, nutrients, and organic matter that can feed the plants, as well as give the roots plenty of…
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Low Maintenance Landscaping Ideas for the New Gardener
As a new gardener, you’re likely dreaming of all of the things you could do with your landscaping. Maybe it’s a yard full of…
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How To Grow and Care For Gardenia Plants
Perfection in Nature! It happens when the beautiful waxy white flower of the Gardenia plant fills the air with its intoxicating, unmistakable fragrance. Myths…
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19 Garden Pests and How To Treat Them
Unfortunately, one of the most severe issues you will face off is the fight with pests. I will list you here some basic strategies…
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Mindful Gardening Outdoors and Inside
We all know now that gardens and gardening enhance the wellbeing and happiness of people. That includes enjoying not only the beauty and the…
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7 Best Kitchen Herbs for Cooking That You Can Grow Yourself
Cooking with fresh herbs and spices does not have to be complicated or expensive. You can also have an indoor herb garden, especially if…
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How To Grow and Care for the Adorable Pickle Plant
With its plump, little gherkin shaped leaves, Delosperma echinatum, also known as the Pickle Plant, is simply too cute for words. Come learn how to…
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Top Beautiful Fall Plants For Your Garden
These 5 beautiful plants to have around this fall are in vibrant shades of yellow, orange, red with late blooms providing pops of colour.…
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24 Flowers For September and October
Visit your local nurseries in September and October and you’ll see plenty of spring-flowering bulbs for sale to be planted in fall. But live…
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A Beginner’s Guide to Backyard Gardening
Backyard gardening is good for physical health and well-being, and it’s an enjoyable hobby that can help you to connect with the natural world…
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5 Essential Garden Tools For Every Gardener
Gardening can be a great hobby for people that love spending their leisure time outdoors to connect with nature. However, having the right gardening…
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Caring For Plants With Root Rot
If you grow plants, ornamental trees, shrubs, vegetables and houseplants, you’ll likely encounter root rot: Powdery Mildew Blossom-end rot Leaf infection Wilting So, what…
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How Proper Landscaping Can Prevent Basement Flooding
A quality landscaping service will go beyond just the way the exterior of a property looks. Of course, this is the main reason people…
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2019 Ottawa Garden Survey – Executive Summary
This a summary of the most frequent comments received from 81 questionnaire responses received by Gardens Ottawa between February 8th and March 31st, 2019.
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The Ramble at 20 – Passion and Opportunity
In the mid 1970’s, Rob Caron, a horticulturist, and David Dunn, an architect met and set out to build a life together. Sharing a…
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How to Keep Your Plants Alive in Fall and Winter
When reading the post, you’ll know how to care for winter plants, and what conditions to create to ensure their health and survival in…
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The story of my pollinator garden
I’m not exaggerating when I say that creating this pollinator garden is one of the best decisions I ever made, and that it has…
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Popular Houseplants for a Healthy Home
Do you want to use plastic plants in your home, or popular houseplants? Real plants contribute to a healthy home. Plastic plants are easier…
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12 Essential Garden Tools for Pros and Beginners
The 12 essential gardening tools you cannot do without if you intend to start a successful garden. Having these tools in your shed is…
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Beekeeping 101: How to Start an Urban Beehive
Keeping an urban beehive in a town or city may seem like a strange idea, as our first thought may be that bees would…
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How to Prune Blueberries
To get a great crop of blueberries every year, one also has to prune the shrubs every winter. Not spring or fall, but during…
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Best Plants For Container Gardening
In this article, we will discuss a dozen of the top picks for creating a container garden that delivers a powerful visual impact.
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What Are The Best Flowering Trellis Plants?
Choosing the ideal trellis plants that flower can be a challenging decision. There are plenty of climbing plants and flowering vines for growing on…
