Tag: Homes
Growing Concerns: Keep yourself and your garden well hydrated during dry spells
Water is what we need most of all and since there looks to be little to no rain in the future, we have to be the source of water for our gardens.
Growing Concerns: After blooming comes deadheading, pruning
It is June and has the weather changed. So much has happened in the garden.
Growing Concerns: Thrillers, spillers and fillers give planters that wow factor
They are big or small, bold or subtle, but they are everywhere.
Growing Concerns: Watering the most important skill for new gardeners
I am often asked, “What is the most important thing a new gardener needs to know?”
Growing Concerns: Garden clean-up can start when the rain stops, ground dries
Spring clean-up in the garden means different things to different people, but for me, it means all perennials and garden grasses are cut back to the ground and all dead leaves and debris are removed from the garden.
Growing Concerns: Lawns ready for a some tender loving care
We have had lots of rain and hot and cold days in April, but that is spring in Ontario.
Growing Concerns: Flowering forsynthias a sure sign spring has arrived
Spring is officially here. How do I know? It is because forsythias are in bloom.
Growing Concerns: Early spring is prime time for pruning and planning
It’s wonderful that each day stays a bit brighter and the sun sets later and later all the time. Before long we will be spending hours in the garden.
Growing Concerns: Many popular Easter plants can go in the garden, eventually
If the old saying is true, that April showers bring May flowers, we should have an amazing crop of flowers in May.
Growing concerns: Cold-hardy pansies, violas can replace greens in porch planters
Easter is just around the corner. We are seeing spring colour everywhere.