Overwintering Outdoor Tropicals Summer is drawing to an end and night temperatures will soon start dropping. Before your tender and tropical plants get chilled, learn how and when to protect them with these tips. Zones 9 & 10 Those plants rated zones 9 and 10,...
Late Summer Garden To Do List August can be a challenging time in the garden, with hot humid days, nights cooling down and summer plants starting to get a little tired. To keep your garden looking fresh, and to keep it growing strongly into fall: 1. Deadhead and...
Reviving Your Garden Take advantage of these ten tips to rejuvenate and nurture your plants! Here we are just part way through summer and our gardens have been under a great deal of stress from the intense heat and lack of rain. How do we get them back on track so we...
Watering During Hot Spells Despite the cooler June weather, it is dry out there now and your plants and trees need water. During a run of very warm days we need to be aware of the importance of thorough watering, as well as how to water wisely. Watering is an art, and...
Summer Fruit Tree Pruning Dormant season is indeed ‘pruning season’ but summer pruning can help improve a tree’s overall health and vigour. Peach, nectarine, Japanese plum, pear and apple trees are good candidates for summer pruning. Doing so will...
Pumpkins! Pumpkins are often a child’s first introduction to horticulture—and what an interesting and rewarding plant it is to learn from! A single seed will grow into a sprawling plant, filled with bright blooms visited by bees, and ultimately producing...
Dogwoods When we mention dogwoods, most folks think of our provincial flower that comes from the native dogwood, ‘Cornus nuttallii’ or the beautiful pink ‘floridas’. Actually, the dogwood family is large and quite diverse. ‘Cornus’ is the...
Preparing Summer Vegetable Gardens Before you lift even one shovel full of soil to get your summer vegetable garden ready, we’d like to offer a few suggestions on how to achieve better success with your edibles this year. We tend to be creatures of habit, but why not...
How to Grow Strawberries It’s hard to imagine a summer garden without the mouth-watering flavour of strawberries, and the good news is, if planted now, you will have some to enjoy from your own garden this year! Growing Healthy Berries Many strawberries are hardy...
All About Mason Bees Mason bees are gentle, hard-working pollinators and they are wonderful creatures to have in our gardens! Mason bee cocoons are available now, but many folks are unsure how to settle them into their yards. When we held our last public spring...
