Rodger Tschanz definitely has the inside track on new plants. He’s been in charge of growing and evaluating new annuals and perennials at the University of Guelph’s and Landscape Ontario’s trial gardens for more than 10 years. Garden Making’s display garden at this year’s Canada Blooms will include some of the new plants...
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The delicate-looking Japanese anemones are fall flowers that you’ll find easy to grow. They can be quite vigorous once established. Garden Making Editor-in-Chief Beckie Fox tells you about anemones in the beautiful setting of the Niagara Parks Botanical Gardens.
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Garden Making Editor-in-Chief Beckie Fox shows you a range of ornamental grasses Read more »
Here is a quick list of how you, too, can enjoy gorgeous containers, as outlined by Garden Making Editor Beckie Fox: Choosing Your Container • Choose containers in shapes and styles compatible with your house and landscape. Terra cotta, concrete and cast-iron are beautiful but heavy. Plastic is inexpensive and light, but not always...
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To record the sequence of perennial blooms in your garden, download this Bloom Chart. List plants and check the time periods when they are in flower. One box equals one week. Blank spaces will indicate the time periods when the garden is without flowers. Research plants that bloom in these periods and make a...
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King Tut papyrus One of the new plant introductions in 2010, King Tut papyrus, really loves the heat. It seems to put on more height the hotter it gets. The stalks, which are three-sided, can grow to 6 ft. x 36 in. (1.8 m x 90 cm) . King Tut is a papyrus...
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Start with healthy plants to help your container garden reach its full potential earlier in the season. Healthy plants bounce back faster after the inevitable traumas they encounter when moving from their small, temporary cell packs or pots to roomier quarters. Healthy plants also have more resources to muster if they need to thwart...
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Herbs make ideal low-maintenance container plants, mainly because most thrive on minimal water and food—within reason, of course. In the case of mints, a pot is the only way to go unless you don’t mind them galloping through your garden beds. Another practical reason to tend a herb garden above ground is convenience for...
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Eagerly anticipated by gardeners are the new plants that nurseries, seed companies and breeders roll out every year. It could be a new colour, a novel variation, or increased pest or disease tolerance in one of their old favourites that piques their interest. Here are a few of the new annuals, herbs, perennials and...
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A way to extend the all-too-short but oh-so-glorious peony season is to include tree peonies in your garden. Paeonia suffruticosa hybrids bloom a week or two earlier than P. lactiflora and P. officinalis hybrids. Their exoticism may make you think they’re temperamental, but that’s not the case at all, although they are slightly less...
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