Paul’s Plant Picks

I have said this before and I will say it again: One of the things I really love about horticulture is that even after the 25 short years that I’ve …

I’m thrilled to report that while touring a group through TBG this week, I spotted not one, but two monarch butterflies (at the same time). The first sighting of the …

Geum triflorum, Prairie Smoke. In the distance are clumps of Camassia leichtlinii, a western native that will soon add a riot of star-shaped, blue-purple blooms on 60 to 90 centimetre …

Personally, I get very excited watching the buds of trees and shrubs slowly swell, expand and eventually burst into blooms. Viburnum farreri ‘Nanum’ is currently budding at the edge of …

Desperate for a sign of spring, I’ve been carefully combing the gardens at work and at home for any indication of the coming season. It’s been a long and bitterly …

As we shovel out from yet another dumping of the white stuff and the piles get higher and higher, I can’t help but wonder when, and if, spring will ever …

Planning for a Winter Garden Tour Who would have thought that at this time last year select Helleborus and Erica in the TBG gardens had visible buds and flowers bravely …

I have always considered evergreens (conifers) to be the backbone of a garden as they provide both year round presence and interest. They vary greatly in size, shape and colour, …

Although the fall garden is rich in a blaze of beautiful golden, orange, red and burgundy tones, I continue to have a soft spot for white, even in autumn. One …