The Garden Awakening will change the way you garden
Mary Reynolds’ The Garden Awakening is an important book during these troubled times. It is both a gardening book and a road map we all need to follow into the future. For some it is a treasure map to help them rediscover nature and themselves. For others, it will provide them with a new way of looking at their gardens, their land and their life. Please, click on the link for the full review.
What are the benefits to growing native violets?
Our common native violets are important wildflowers that need to have a place in our gardens and even in our grass.
Native plants in the Pacific Northwest
Gardening with Native Plants of the Pacific Northwest should be a garden bible for anyone lucky enough to call this area home.
Understory Gardens: Focus on sustainable west-coast landscapes
Alexa LeBouef Brooks is a west coast garden designer looking to convince people that we need a more sustainable approach to garden design in the face of climate change.
Sumac: First signs of fall in the garden
Staghorn Sumac is an excellent addition to the garden both to add architectural interest and provide a food source for birds and animals.
Plant Native Sunflowers for the bees, butterflies and the birds
Our native woodland sunflowers are not only beautiful but important plants for native bees, birds, butterflies and other insects.
Native Goldenrod: Fall’s golden gift to wildlife gardeners and photographers
Goldenrod blooming in our gardens and along roadsides is a sure sign that fall is not far off. These are important native plants for a host of bees and butterflies that depend on the plants for late summer, early fall food sources.
Monarda and Cardinal flowers: Native reds Hummingbirds can’t resist
Monarda and Cardinal flower are two native reds Hummingbirds can’t resist. Both have similar tube-like flowers that are perfect for hummingbirds and other pollinators.
Solomon’s seal is solid choice for the woodland or shade garden
Solomon’s seal’s arching branches reveal the dangling cream flowers that highlight the spring woodland garden.
How to grow sunflowers
Looking to grow sunflowers this season? Here is a guide to growing them in your landscape as well as in containers, including growing tips on the massive, single-flowered variety as well as the smaller, multi-flowered varieties.
Celebrate No Mow May along with the butterflies, birds and bees
The No Mow movement is sweeping the world after getting its start in Britain. It is now being picked up by environmental groups, cities and towns and individual homeowners looking to do their part to help native flowers and fauna.
Foliage and texture in a woodland garden design
Woodland gardens are dependent on foliage texture for much of their subtle beauty. Three native plants, ….. Jack in the Pulpit, Solomon’s Seal and Mayapple are three plants that are standouts in the woodland garden for their foliage rather than their subtle flowers.
How to attract Native Bees to your wildlife garden
It’s time our 4,000 native bee species took centre stage rather than playing second fiddle to European honey bees. In her book Our Native Bees, Paige Embry puts native bees in the spotlight where they belong.
The Mayapple: Carolinian zone woodland native wildflower
Early spring is the time for Mayapples to spread out across the forest floor and our woodland gardens. The spring ephemerals are native to southern Ontario and northeastern United States but stretch as far north as Quebec and as far south as Florida.
Toronto couple team up to save oriole the “snow bird”
A Baltimore Oriole that overwintered in Toronto had a couple of friends to help her. Two Toronto University professors went to great lengths to provide food and warmth to the young oriole during a long cold winter. Violet, as they aptly named her, survived the winter and is ready to celebrate spring.
Native plants help rewild his woodland garden ark
The coyote making itself at home on his back deck on his facebook page caught my eye, but the fact that Vince Fiorito brought in 50 tons of boulders and rocks into his backyard caught my attention. This guy is serious about rewilding his backyard.
The Humane Gardener: Nurturing a Backyard Habitat For Wildlife
Nancy Lawson’s love affair with the natural world and all its inhabitants big and small, is on display in The Humane Gardener: Nurturing a Backyard Habitat For Wildlife. It’s a book every gardener needs to have in their library and a message of respect and compassion the entire world needs to hear.
Native Plants find a home on Vancouver Island
Satinflower Nurseries Native Plants owners Kristen and James Miskelly are reshaping and rewilding the gardens and natural areas around Canada’s beautiful city of Victoria on Vancouver Island. The couple is bringing their expertise of native plants to gardeners, and large commericial clients and restoring the natural habitat of the Saanich area.
Ontario Native Plants: Taking back nature one garden at a time
Reyna Matties and Ontario Native Plants is saving our natural environment one garden at a time. The Hamilton-based native plant on-line store offers more than 100 plants, shrubs and trees native to Ontario and the Carolinian Canada forest zone to shoppers on their informative on-line catalogue.