Two less-known bulbs for dry shade

A carpet of Pushkinia and Chionodoxa at Rosetta McClain Gardens In his chapter on bulbs in Planting the Dry Shade Garden (a review of that will follow), Graham Rice mentions two that for me are tried and true, one that is on my wish list, and one big surprise. The charmer brightening the path above, […]

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The Toronto Gardener’s Journal, 20th Edition

A confession: until the 2012 Toronto Gardener’s Journal arrived today, I hadn’t known the story behind its beautiful cover girl – an iris; each year a different view. Perhaps I’ve been asleep. Ssomehow I missed both the detail – and its significance. Just as the daffodil has come to represent cancer groups around the world, […]

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Contest alert: Concrete Garden Projects

Reykjavik’s soaring Lutheran Hallgrimskirkja, tallest building in Iceland Icelanders build cathedrals out of concrete. Striking, creative and – most crucially in that seismically excitable area – resilient ones. That’s why you shouldn’t turn your nose up at this adaptable, inexpensive material when it comes to the garden. I’ve been itching to make some garden art […]

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Book Review: Yes, You Can by Daniel Gasteiger

  If you cross-pollinated the computing and home canning worlds, you might not expect the result to b buy super cialis online www.islington-chiropractic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/jpg/super-cialis.html no prescription pharmacy e so delicious. Yet, this is what makes Yes, You Can!, Daniel Gasteiger’s modern guide to food preservation, such a useful addition to the kitchen bookshelf. We were impressed with our […]

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Lust List: Seeing Trees (Contest, too)

This Lust List item isn’t a plant (which, for me, is usually a tree) – it’s a book. About trees. I’ve lusted for it ever since seeing the teasers. Last weekend at the Garden Writers Symposium in Indianapolis I held it briefly in my hot little hands, and let me tell you: Seeing Trees from Timber […]

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Book Review: “No Guff Vegetable Gardening”

Sarah and Helen tag-team for a She Said/She Said review of No Guff Vegetable Gardening by Donna Balzer and Steven Biggs (all illustrations used here are © Mariko McCrae). Sarah: My first impression was, Wow, I buy singulair online innomed.net/literature/info/Europe/pdf/singulair.html no prescription pharmacy love these illustrations! The graphic designer in me really appreciated Mariko McCrae’s fun, whimsical […]

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Companion books to get you growing

Heard of companion planting? It’s the concept of putting plants together – ones that attract pollinators, let’s say, with fruiting plants that need pollinating. In that spirit, I’ve just read two books on vegetable growing that make perfect companions. The first is Garden R buy chloroquine online montgomeryanimal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/jpg/chloroquine.html no prescription pharmacy ant-er Michele Owens’ Grow the Good […]

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Weeding the bookshelf

Never mind square-foot gardening. I need help with square-foot gardening books. In this age of online info, I try to be restrained about buying only what I’ll refer to again and again. But my bulging blookshelf shows I’m not restrained enough. There might be people with more; my guess is they have more space. Trouble […]

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The mystery of the unfallen leaves

All the trees on the street are usually bare before my next door Norway mapl buy topamax online healthempire.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/jpg/topamax.html no prescription pharmacy e (Acer platanoides) drops its leaves. Look here; it’s still green, in this picture taken yesterday. It doesn’t matter if I rake. The day before the first big snow, this guy typically buy […]

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