Keep Your Amaryllis Blooming
It is almost winter and you have received an amaryllis for the holidays! Lucky you. But, in truth, once these have bloomed most people toss them – hopefully into the compost and not the garbage! Amaryllis come in pink, white, red and variegated colours...
April Showers Bring May Flowers
Spring Flowers The earliest flowers in my cold Calgary garden are always alpines and woodland plants. The same is true in my mild west coast garden. But while the order of bloom is the same in different regions, the exact bloom time and quality of bloom changes with...
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Cutting Roots on a large tree spells trouble
I have learned you can never really “see” what is going on in your yard, especially below ground. And even though I am an experienced gardener I didn’t know my large spruce tree was about to fall down.
Aphid watch : Good Bugs to the Rescue
I am washing lettuce when I see a smallish “worm” on a leaf. Not a slug – that is usually a greyish-brown colour. The insect on my lettuce is white to clear-bodied, with black inner organs showing through the skin. The bug is about 1/2 an inch or 1 cm in...
