Minter Country Garden Blog
DIY Winter Greens Baskets
Winter greens baskets add a touch of warmth, grace, and seasonal charm over the holidays, but they can brighten up the darker days and cold and dreary months of winter too!
Holiday Greens and Trees Timeline
To avoid disappointment, and to keep your holiday décor looking and smelling its best, try using the following timeline to guide your decorating plans.
Top 10 Things To Do in your Garden this Month
To help keep your garden in good shape now, and even better shape for the months to come, follow our November to do list.
Exceptional Fall Colour from Unexpected Plants
These unexpected colourful plants add interest to your garden in spring and summer to be sure, but with their added kick of colour each fall, they’ll add incredible value to your yard for yet another season!
Bulbs With a Purpose
Whether you’re seeking more fragrance or want to plant bulbs the deer won’t eat, we’ve put together some of our best bets for bulbs that serve a purpose in your garden! Naturalizers Bulbs that ‘naturalize’ are those that, in a nutshell, spread and regenerate...
Fall Feeding
It hardly seems fair, but November 1st is only a few weeks away, and we all know what that means–surprise cold spells that can take their toll on our gardens! Now is the time to begin a fall fertilization program to toughen up softer plants, but it’s also the time to...
Fall Colour Transition
As a very warm and exceptionally dry summer transitions into a rather abrupt wet re-hydration of our lawns, trees, and flower beds, it’s time to re-evaluate our garden colour. Let’s be honest, it was a struggle to keep things looking good in the heat, and now many of...
Late Summer Flowering Shrubs
Is it a little bleak in the colour department of your garden right now? Vacillating hot (extremely hot) and cool weather certainly hasn’t helped our gardens, and many plants have struggled to stay lush amid the stress. Many seasonal plants have succumbed to the...
Fall and Winter Vegetable Gardening
In the Lower Mainland, fast crops like lettuce, some brassicas, peas, beans, radishes, Swiss chard, and beets can easily be planted in late summer, especially from started crops or transplants, for harvesting from September through next March and beyond. You must,...
Shade Trees
If you haven’t been sitting under a shade tree during our extremely hot weather, it’s probably because you don’t have one! As a matter of fact, if you take a good look around at newer homes, many on smaller lots, shade trees tend to be one of the rarest species of...