The plants of Canada Blooms 2019

Have you ever paused to think what a challenge it must be to force 70,000 plants into leaf or peak bud or bloom in time for the March opening of a show like this? Especially over the dark, rainy, sleety, snowy Ontario winter like the one we’ve survived in 2018-19! That’s an accomplishment in itself. And to […]

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Independent Garden Centres in Toronto

Cornus kousa ‘Summer Fun’ from Reeves last year   We’ve had a lot of hits to our blog recently buy zocor online azpsych.org/general/october/html/zocor.html no prescription pharmacy looking for the now sadly closed Reeves Nursery, which we wrote about when it opened on the Danforth in our east-end neighborhood last spring. Makes me think that we […]

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Native plants: Prepare to do some thinking

Ontario’s native floral symbol Trillium grandiflorum – can you be sure it was responsibly propagated? Is choosing native plants always the right thing to do for the planet? Si buy strattera online waynegeneralhospital.org/home-health/html/strattera.html no prescription pharmacy mple answer, right? Well, after a couple of recent encounters, I’m surprised. The simple answer turns out to be […]

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So many choices, May 2nd

When our youngest daughter was in 6th grade, she had to write a two-page short story. At page five, she was still writing, so I asked her why. “I can’t help it,” she exclaimed. “Things just keep happening!!” Things just keep happening on the garden calendar, too. Sunday, May 2nd is no exception, and one […]

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Selecting perennials for easy care

Who doesn’t want a garden that’s low maintenance? Of course, the mantra is: Low maintenance does not mean no maintenance. Even if you’re laying down concrete grass and planting plastic flowers, some maintenance will be required. However, selecting well will help you keep plant maintenance to a minimum. If you don’t want to spend your […]

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Mark your calendars: Marion Jarvie’s Open Gardens 2010

Starting last night, me, my battered notebook and a classroom of other garden keeners join Toronto horticulture-guru Marion Jarvie for three sessions at the Toronto Botanical Garden‘s George and Kathy Dembroski Centre for Horticulture. She’ll be talking small, shady, city gardens. online pharmacy buy tizanidine with best prices today in the USA That’s how I […]

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The Seductive Lure of Plant Names

When I’m at the nursery on a plant buying spree, (oops, did I say, spree? I meant visit) the thing about a plant that gets me first is colour. Anything blue, purple or lime green and my eye goes right for it. A closer inspection of the tag can online pharmacy buy accutane with best […]

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Bookmarked on Gardenimport

[Update: Sadly, Gardenimport has ceased to operate. We miss it. But we have fun spotting Dugald here and there in all things horticultural.] It’s fun getting the emails from Gardenimport, the mail-order garden centre started by Dugald Cameron and his family back in 1983. There are always a couple of gems in his mailer of unusual […]

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Toronto Source of White Clover Seeds: Plant World

We recently wrote a lawn post, where we encouraged you to add white clover to any lawn overseeding this spring: Clover adds nitrogen to the soil so it’s an excellent organic amendment to any lawn. I have always bough buy metformin online www.urologicalcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/jpg/metformin.html no prescription pharmacy t my clover seeds at Farm Co-ops out of […]

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