DIY: FERTILIZERS AND NATURAL SOLUTIONS
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DIY: PERENNIALS FOR GROUND COVERS
Ground covers are both decorative and problem solvers. Many thrive in shade or where lawns will not grow; others are ideal for preventing soil erosion and weed control.
Perennials for ground covers are not usually the herbaceous types that die down in winter but rather evergreen types, woody sub-shrubs and those with winter persistent foliage.
DIY: PLANTING A ROCK GARDEN
Rock gardens provide the ideal place to showcase the small, delicate and understated flowers that get overshadowed in other gardens. If you happen to have a gentle slope in your yard that gets plenty of sun, this is the perfect place to build a natural-looking rock garden.
DIY: SPRING BULBS
Bulbs can be used in nearly any garden or patio setting, giving you flowers, fragrance and brilliant colour with just a little effort. You will be amazed at what will grow from these little brown bulbs. Bigger is better when choosing tubers, corms or rhizomes. Energy for the initial spurt of Spring growth is stored in the bulb or tuber, so a larger bulb means more stored energy and a stronger, healthier plant.
DIY: HARDY ORNAMENTAL GRASSES
The most significant change in gardening in the last few years has been the renewed interest in hardy herbaceous perennials. These dependable plants that we are rediscovering, were well known to previous generations of gardeners. Only ornamental grasses are entirely new. Garden centres previously offered only a few grasses, such as Blue Fescue and Tuberous Oat Grass or non-hardy varieties of Fountain Grass for summer planting. The selection available today can provide hardy grasses for almost every garden purpose.
DIY: WINTERIZING GARDEN PONDS
Your pond's surface is where the exchange of oxygen, carbon dioxide and other gases takes place. It is important for the health of your fish that this continue during the winter. An iced pond surface traps harmful gases in the water. Plant maintenance is important for better water quality and a better environment for oxygenating plants.
DIY: COLOUR SPRING TO FALL – SIX BASIC PERENNIALS
These six essential perennials are plants of size and substance. They will be the backbone of your perennial garden. With the wide choice of cultivars available in each of these six basic plants, any colour scheme is possible.
Your perennial garden could consist totally of these few basic perennials, but if space permits, it is so easy with the many hundreds of perennials available to fill in around them. Not only would this create an increasingly lush garden, you could begin the flower display earlier than the show of Iris and Peony, and extend it later in the fall.
DIY: PERENNIALS FOR CUT FLOWERS
Having fresh flowers in your home every day is one of life’s many pleasures. With even a small perennial garden you can enjoy fresh flowers from spring to fall. To be able to step into your own garden, make your selection of flowers in bloom and arrange them in water holding container is itself a pleasant and satisfying action.
DIY: THE BEAUTY OF RHODODENDRONS AND AZALEAS
Rhododendrons are heavy flowering evergreen plants, which enjoy a sheltered and shaded location. Azaleas are also heavy flowering plants and enjoy a sunny or semi-shaded location.
HOW TO PRUNE FRUIT TREES?
At the garden centre, the fruit trees offered for sale may be three years or older and the basic shape already begun or established, having been pruned at the nursery. You need now only to maintain and improve the open-centred vase shape that is desirable.
The only question is how do you do that? Which branches do you trim or cut off completely ? How much you do prune it back? Continue reading to find out!
HOW TO IDENTIFY POISONOUS PLANTS?
Houseplants, cultivated garden plants and ornamentals are the cause of many poisonings. However, some are attributable to native or naturalized plants. The most commonly reported plant poisonings result from curious children eating fruit and plant fragments.
How do you know which plants are poisonous in Ontario? How do you identify them? Continue reading to find out!
ANNUALS – GARDENS COME ALIVE WITH COLOUR
Annuals are those plants whose life cycle is completed within a single season. The seed germinates, the plants bloom, set seed and then die ñ from spring to the following autumn. Owing to their short life span, annuals allow you to experiment and express yourself anew each year.