Canada Blooms opens the gardening season
What's hot at Canada Blooms? Lorraine Flanigan hits the highlights from southern Ontario's premier garden show. For five days in March, the Canada Blooms flower and garden show drew record-breaking crowds to the Metro Convention Centre in ... [... more]
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Biggest is Not Best with Bedding Plants
GardenLine / Yard & Garden / Biggest is Not Best with Bedding Plants With our short gardening season, we need as much of a jump on the season as possible. Bedding plants offer the head start necessary to ensure an early crop, or a full season of ... [... more]
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Great Garden Formulas
 Very informative. Has alot of solutions for plants.: The book has formulas that help plants. Such as, pest control and natural fertalizers. It also give you recipes for herbal shampoos and condtiononers. Great Book. :) This is a wonderful book!: This [... more]
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Annuals & Perennials
annuals and perennials: Annuals and Perennials is a great book for gardeners of all ages. It tells you when to grow plants, when the flowers of that plant will bloom, and where in the U.S. it will grow. With full color pictures and info on tons of plants, [... more]
CDN$32.95
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Allergy Free Gardening
Wow! This is an incredible book!!: I just finished reading and reviewing Safe Sex in the Garden, the newest book by Thomas Leo Ogren. I had already bought and read (several times) Allergy-Free Gardening. I am becomming a real fan of this author, who I [... more]
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Out of the Cave and into the Sunshine!
Spring clean up is blissful torture - rediscovering old friends and new foes, old joints and new muscle pains - getting back into the gardening season. I am sitting on thorns as I type this. My hands look as though I had just adopted a new ... [... more]
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I'd LOVE to Stop and Smell the Flowers. . .
Why is it that gardeners find it so difficult to simply sit back and enjoy the gardens they take such pride in creating? Here are all of my excuses. What are yours? We've finally reached that time of the gardening season when we are supposed to ... [... more]
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With a hopeful eye on the weather
March is a restless month for gardeners. With a constant eye on the weather, we wait for signs of spring. To wile away the days, surf the 'Net for weather forecasts of the upcoming gardening season. I want to be gardening. Now! It's March, a ... [... more]
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Harbingers of Fall - Part III - Asters, Part 1, Etc.
Just coming on now, Asters are plants that really wrap up the gardening season in my USDA zone 7 garden. Starting to bloom about the same time as eupatorium and liriope, begonia grandis (hardy begonia) also tells me the season is getting on. I ... [... more]
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They put their glories all behind them...
The final curtain of the gardening season and the faeries take a bow. Tales of the last hurrahs in the garden and the faeries going down for their naps. The following appeared in the November 1995 edition of Lady Barbara's Garden Journal I was ... [... more]
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Getting The Gardening Season Off To A Good Start
It's time to get out there and get your garden back into shape. Here's what you should do first and how. When I hear the frogs singing, I know it's time to get back out into the garden. I always want to rush out there and start on the chores as ... [... more]
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Seed Saving
Saving seeds of your garden plants is notonly an act of preservation - it's a way to beautify your neighborhood and your own yard! At the end of the gardening season, one of the most enjoyable of my rituals is saving the seeds for next year. ... [... more]
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