Garden Design

Let Nature Guide Your Garden Design

One of the first places to look for garden design ideas is in the natural habitats created by Mother nature. A walk along a trail whether meadow or woodland will reveal trees, shrubs, plants and ground cover arranged to create … Continue reading

Posted in Advice, Garden Design | Comments Off on Let Nature Guide Your Garden Design

Gardening In Raised Beds

Raised beds built along the property line between neighours. It serves as a community garden between the two families, taking advantage of a full sun location and sharing both watering tasks and harvests. As you think about gardening next spring, … Continue reading

Posted in Advice, Garden Design, Uncategorized | Comments Off on Gardening In Raised Beds

Bermaculture: Gardening on a Sunny Slope with a Permaculture Twist

Our front yard slopes down to the street, and had patchy grass and poor soil after an excavation.  A perennial bed along the front walkway was on my list, but I was unsure how to tackle the poor conditions until, … Continue reading

Posted in Advice, Garden Design | Comments Off on Bermaculture: Gardening on a Sunny Slope with a Permaculture Twist

Garden Trends for 2020

Garden Trends for 2020 By Tanya Crowell, M.G. Garden season is mostly over now and there is little work to keep a gardener busy in these short cold days of November. Thus my mind naturally turns to planning next year’s … Continue reading

Posted in Advice, Garden Design, Uncategorized | Comments Off on Garden Trends for 2020

Lousy to Lush In ten Steps

Lousy to Lush in 10 Steps The speaker for our June meeting was Cauleen Viscoff. Cauleen is a Peterborough Master Gardener and a professional horticulturist. She gave us an entertaining slide show presentation on how to rescue a garden in … Continue reading

Posted in Garden Design, Meeting Presentaions, Uncategorized | Comments Off on Lousy to Lush In ten Steps

Choosing Plants For The Winter Garden

  In the depths of mid winter our thoughts often wander to the gardens of summer but there can be pleasure found in the winter landscape. Having had time to assess our winter gardens it is time to start considering … Continue reading

Posted in Garden Design | Comments Off on Choosing Plants For The Winter Garden