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Paul Zammit’s step by step guide to creating an eye-catching winter arrangement. Materials: Cone clipped boxwood (in 3 gallon plastic pot) Faux bois concrete planter with drainage holes Fresh material, …
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We have been working with growers across southern Ontario for months and months to source and bring you new and choice plant material for the 2015 Plant Sale. Here are …
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There has been great deal of media attention regarding selecting plants for ones garden to attract and support pollinators, particularly bees and butterflies. Last week I caught a glimpse of …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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