Is your Alberta garden plagued with slugs? Are unsightly holes disheartening your hostas?
In this blog, we will talk about the life cycle of slugs, where slugs typically live, how slugs damage plants and share some simple and effective ways to get rid of slugs in your garden.
Scarlet lily beetles (lilioceris lilii) – also known as red lily beetles or simply lily beetles – are pesky little offenders that can wreak some serious havoc on your garden. Today, we’re explaining the life cycle of lily beetles as well as our foolproof way to get rid of lily beetles naturally.
Have you ever set out to do anything without having a strategy? And how did that work for you? Just how many trips did you take back to the store to get supplies?
Strategizing for anything you’d like to accomplish is always a good idea. In this blog we will talk about why planning a garden is a good idea and talk about steps in planning a garden.
Join us as we dialogue about when to plant a dahlia tuber, how to plant a dahlia tuber, how to care for a dahlia as it comes out of dormancy, and how to care for dahlias during the summer.
For plants, light is life. Light is the crucial element for their growth – if we didn’t have light, we wouldn’t have plants. In the north where we live, adequate lighting from natural sources for growing plants can be hard to come by.
In this blog we will talk about photosynthesis, why supplemental lighting for plants is necessary and new trends in LED lighting for horticulture.
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Wondering how to overwinter your treasured dahlia flowers? Today, we’re sharing two simple methods for overwintering your dahlia tubers indoors during Canada’s cold winter – both for those grown in pots and those grown in the ground.
Fertilizer can be confusing. The sheer quantity of brands and mathematical combinations can be dizzying. Let’s spend some time unwinding fertilizer and hopefully, the numbers will begin to make sense.
Explore the history of horticultural zones, what horticultural zone Alberta is, what growing zone Edmonton is, how horticultural zones benefit the home gardener, and some hardy perennials for Edmonton’s horticultural zone with us in this blog.
It’s frustrating. Perennials die over the winter and they’re really not supposed to, right?
Tomatoes are probably the strongest draw for the non-gardener to venture into trying to grow something because there really is nothing like a fresh tomato. Tomatoes are originally native to the tropics, producing smaller berry-like fruit than we know today. Here are a few tips on the environment of their choice and care.
Plants are amazing in their complexity and habit. Within all of their wonder, there is an intriguing collection of plants that close up at night – a phenomenon called nyctinasty.
Sam Llewelyn said “In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death.”
For the beginning gardener, putting the different pieces of the gardening puzzle together can be confusing. This blog will highlight the basic differences between annuals & perennials.
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As the growing season winds down, that prickly patch of raspberries is screaming for attention. To be able to prune raspberries correctly, understanding their life cycle makes the task so much more bearable. Here are a few tips on raspberry pruning.
Below is a list we have compiled of zone 3 and 4 perennials that day in and day out, season in and season out have proven to be good performers for our locale here in the greater Edmonton area.
There Is Life After Shade…
Shade is one of the gardening areas that people struggle with the most, and we receive the most questions about it in our retail sales greenhouse. The shade garden is a unique garden and can happen in unexpected places, like under a heavily foliage tree in the middle of a sunny yard or next to a building or under a pergola. We have a few ideas with how to tackle this area, starting with the structure of a perennial garden, filling it in with annuals, and we also a few tips on care.