Garden gazing in southern Ontario
Pack up the car with a few friends, water bottle and sun hat and hit the road for a tour of the gardens in southern Ontario. I confess to being a garden voyeur. I love to see what other people have done in their gardens -- how they've managed to ... [... more]
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Top 100 Unusual Things to See in Ontario
 So much to see in Ontario: From the Peterborough Petroglyphs, through the Niagara Escarpment Cedars which are hundreds of years old, to the Ouimet Canyon in Northern Ontario: Ron Brown has collated and written commentaries on a large number of [... more]
CDN$24.95
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Forest plants of Central Ontario
Review of Forest Plants of Central Ontario: I used this plant guide in Killarney Provincial Park (Ontario) and found it useful for identifying major plant species of the area. This guide is interesting because it includes both a photograph and a line [... more]
CDN$31.20
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Top 100 Unusual Things to See in Ontario
So much to see in Ontario: From the Peterborough Petroglyphs, through the Niagara Escarpment Cedars which are hundreds of years old, to the Ouimet Canyon in Northern Ontario: Ron Brown has collated and written commentaries on a large number of [... more]
CDN$24.95
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Mountain Bike Here: Ontario and Central and Western New York
Get out and ride, and take this book with you.: This is a great book to get out and around if you don't have "inside" information on where to bike. I can only comment on the Central Ontario section, which is fairly complete, although it does [... more]
CDN$19.95
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Royal Ontario Museum
This unique publication, produced in association with the Royal Ontario Museum, is the guide Ontario birders have been waiting for... The ROM Field Guide to Birds of Ontario is researched and written specifically for the Ontario bird watcher. It ... [... more]
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Waterfalls of Ontario
This book actually works!: I used the book the other day to find the falls in Waterdown, Ontario; the description of the falls and how to get there was accurate to a T! Over the next year or two I intend to use this easily understandable guide to check [... more]
CDN$29.95
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A growing interest in species clematis
Species clematis make good choices for southern Ontario gardens. They're easy to care for, vigorous growers that are among the most social of climbers for the garden. Clematis hybrids have become garden essentials, colouring our gardens, ... [... more]
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Lilium canadense
Lilium canadense has exquisitely beautiful flowers - pendent bells with slightly recurving petal tips in whorled candelabra heads. This charming lily is native to the eastern coast of North America from Quebec and Ontario in Canada to north ... [... more]
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Love 'em and toss 'em: Summer bulbs for Ontario gardens
Summer bulbs make ideal container plants if you decide to adopt the love 'em and toss 'em philosophy of gardening, You'd think that after more than ten years of gardening I'd have discovered summer bulbs before now. Well, I'm ashamed to say that ... [... more]
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Ontario Field Guides from Lone Pine Publishing
Every nature lover needs field guides to both the flora and fauna of the various geographical regions they visit or live in. These two guides provide good information on Ontario plants. Bogs, fens, marshes, swamps, and the shores of lakes, ... [... more]
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Gardening ideas: from Philadelphia to southern Ontario
The gardeners of Philadelphia have a lot in common with the gardeners of southern Ontario. On a recent trip, I visited private and public gardens of Philadelphia and came away with ten great gardening ideas that we can do in Ontario. What do the ... [... more]
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