Gardening
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Landscape Design: Make Your Own Water Garden
The sight and sound of water, the colourful fish and varied plants water can support,... -
Gardening Tips for Dry, Free-Draining Soil
On free-draining soils you can grow a range of plants that are not happy in... -
Planning Your Vegetable Patch for Your Garden
Designing your vegetable garden can be a fun and exciting task! Before you get rolling... -
How to Grow Strawberries in Your Garden
The most landscape-friendly of fruits, strawberries grow wild in temperate regions across America and Europe.... -
Garden Tips: Removing Leaves from Your Landscape
Raking may not be everyone's favourite task but it will benefit your landscape and garden... -
How to Build a Stylish Gravel Garden For Your Landscape
Gravel gardens are low-maintenance and clean. There's no worry about having to weed it or... -
Landscape Design: Adding Rock Plants to Your Garden
With their delicate detail and exquisite form, alpines and other rock plants have a particular... -
Landscape Design: Learn About Elegant Espaliers
To practice the centuries-old art of espalier, start with the right plant and train it...
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Adding an Arbour or Pergola to Your Garden
Gardeners have used arches, arbours, and pergolas to add interest and height to gardens since... -
Landscape Design: Best Plants for Your Deck or Patio
Every summer many of us spend hours upon hours just lounging on our patios and... -
Landscaping Tips: Getting Your Patio Furniture Ready for Summer
Nothing beats relaxing on the patio or under a shady tree in a comfortable chair,... -
Landscaping Ideas: Making a Beautiful Garden Terrace
Summertime is the season when a terrace comes into its own. Your patio may be... -
Types of Plant Beds and Borders for Your Garden Landscape
Beds and borders fall loosely into four categories: single, herbaceous, shrub and mixed. The style... -
Choosing the Right Plants for Your Garden Landscape
Interesting as the attributes of any single plant may be, it is the way plants... -
How to Add Architectural Plants to Your Garden
Plants come in unlimited shapes and sizes, which you can use to great advantage.Think... -
Garden Design From a Florist’s Perspective
The garden of her Surrey home is dotted with pots at every turn: some decorative,...
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Tips for Gardening with Children
If you have a child in your life who's interested in growing plants, make a... -
Landscaping Tips: Things to Know about Boundary Walls
A boundary wall shelters the garden from strong and cold winds and presents a marvellous... -
Landscaping Tips: How to Grow Apples in Your Yard
Apple trees are somewhat slow to become established, but they often bear for many years... -
How to Hand Weed Your Garden
Weeding a garden can be one of the most dreaded tasks a gardener faces. Because... -
How to Predict the Weather for Your Gardening Chores
Collecting weather data specific to your landscape will help you tailor your gardening chores, improve... -
Landscaping Basics: Understanding Your Gardening Soil
A good garden begins with good soil. In order to have a healthy, beautiful garden... -
Growing Apples: Problem Signs and Symptoms to Watch for
The majority of apple pests can be controlled with one dormant spray plus the controls... -
Growing Plums: Common Plum Problems
There are over a hundred varieties of plums currently growing in Canada. Some of these...
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How to Grow Peas in Your Garden
Peas are one of the prime examples of the taste difference between bought and fresh... -
Landscape Design: Your Own Japanese Garden
Japanese culture is known for its elegant appreciation for nature and simplicty. If you look... -
Make Your Own City Garden
The concrete paving behind her city-centre basement flat is not quite 8m wide and 5.5m... -
How to Add Evergreen Trees to Your Landscape
In winter, when most trees are bare, evergreens serve as much-needed columns of green, which... -
A Look at the Different Types of Roses
There are a variety of rose types that you can plant in your garden. From... -
Landscape and Garden Planning: Where to Put Your Garden for Maximum Yield
Where should you put your garden? It's suggested that you choose a place that gets... -
How to Attract Wildlife to Your Landscape
A mere 100 years ago, the greater portion of our landscape was farmland. There were wood... -
How to Evaluate a Damaged Lawn
A damaged lawn can be treated with some good old tender, love and care. Here,...