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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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