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Practical Spring Gardening Tips You May or May Not Have Heard

Posted on June 3, 2013 by patinaandcompany

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 | 10 Comments

Photos: Garden Update

Posted on June 11, 2012 by patinaandcompany

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 | 14 Comments

Gardening to Sell

Posted on April 9, 2012 by patinaandcompany

Living in the Toronto area, the subject of selling real estate is never far from one’s mind. We have long had one of the most incessantly frenetic real estate markets in the country, if not the world. Unlike in quainter … Continue reading →

Posted in Garden Design, Garden Maintenance | Tagged asset, back yard, barren back yard, bungalow, character of house, classic english, colours, complement, deciduous trees, desirable area, desirable features, english garden, english style, evergreens, first impression, flipping, front door, front porch, front yard, garden design, garden design Toronto, gardening, high maintenance, high-impact, house, house and garden, inviting garden, landscape design toronto, landscaping, lifestyle, low maintenance, maintenance issue, modern, mulch, neat, neighborhood, old english, planters, plants, potential buyer, price point, real estate, real estate market, relaxed, relaxing exterior, selling, sense of welcome, shrubs, slow market, Toronto, Toronto area, traditional, trees, view, well-kept, well-maintained | 3 Comments

Spring Beauty

Posted on March 20, 2012 by patinaandcompany

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 →

Posted in Garden Design | Tagged bulbs, canadian gardeners, crocus, crocuses, early blooms, first flowers, garden design, March, nature, non-winter, northern gardeners, photos, plants, signs of spring, spring, spring garden, Toronto, Toronto area, warm day, winter garden, winter interest | 5 Comments

Gardening for Winter Interest

Posted on January 14, 2012 by patinaandcompany

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 | 2 Comments

Tag Archives: Toronto area

Practical Spring Gardening Tips You May or May Not Have Heard

Photos: Garden Update

Gardening to Sell

Spring Beauty

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