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Practical Spring Gardening Tips You May or May Not Have Heard
There are spring gardening tips and lists out there in books and in the blogosphere, as well as everywhere else. If you need to know what to do next, go ahead and refer to any of those many sources. Or … Continue reading
Posted in Garden Maintenance
Tagged blood meal, dandilions, dividing bulbs, dividing plants, Fiskars weed remover, garden design, garden maintenance, gardening tips, growing cuttings, heat wave, hydrangeas, mulch, pruning, rabbits eating tulips, skin cancer, solomon's seal, southern ontario, spring, squirrels in the garden, Toronto, Toronto area, transplanting, weeding
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Photos: Garden Update
I am still deeply embroiled in planning and designing gardens, and am preparing my own for an upcoming photo shoot besides. So, although I can’t write much I don’t want to miss sharing my daughter’s updated garden photos as the … Continue reading
Posted in Garden Design
Tagged allium, aurora, border, Canada, canadian gardeners, country garden, design, Dwarf Korean Lilac, english garden, entrance garden, flower border, flower photos, flowers, garden, garden design Toronto, garden photos, gardening, Giant Flowering Onion, hosta, Iris, island bed, island beds, June, king city, landscape design, landscaping, May, natural landscape, nature, Ontario, patio, photos, richmond hill, shrubs, spring garden, summer garden, Toronto area, trees, vaughan, woodbridge, york region, zone 5
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Spring Beauty
Spring is full of early surprises here, north of Toronto where we usually have to wait another month or more for the sense of elation that comes with sun shining through the delicate, veined leaves of the first flowers. The … Continue reading
Gardening for Winter Interest
As a former Vancouver Island resident, gardening in Southern Ontario has been full of adjustments, beginning with the shocking revelation that the ground in this part of the country actually freezes as hard as a stone for at least four … Continue reading
Posted in Garden Design
Tagged berries, bloom season, bulbs, design, dogwood, evergreen, garden design, red berries, Toronto, Toronto area, winter garden, winter interest, winter planters
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