Moving a Garden in the Fall*
Hello :) I have a time-sensitive question and would greatly appreciate your help. We are moving within the next couple of weeks from the suburbs to the country side. We did not expect to move so I had my garden…
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Choosing Dwarf Evergreens
Hi,
I was wondering if you could recommend a slow growing evergreen tree for my front lawn. I live in Toronto where my house faces north. I am redoing my front lawn/driveway and am trying to decide what to plant.…
Which Tall Fast Growing Non Invasive Privacy Hedge would you plant from seed in Los Angeles?*
Hi – I want to plant a privacy perimeter around the entire perimeter of my house – it’s about 147 linear feet.
I absolutely love love the look of yellow oleander, but I didn’t want to plant something poisonous that…
Pollinator Garden: A Toronto Master Gardeners Guide
Most of the earth’s ecosystems, including much of our food supply, are dependent on pollinators.
Embedded in the ground as they are, most flowering plants need help to reproduce. Over 80 percent of flowering plants need pollinators such as birds,…
Drought Tolerant Perennials: A Toronto Master Gardeners Guide
In the gardening world, the term perennial usually refers to an herbaceous perennial, i.e., a plant without woody tissue, that dies back to the ground at the end of the growing season and grows again from its rootstock in spring.…
Growing Gesneriads: A Toronto Master Gardeners Guide
Several members of the Gesneriad family of plants originate in tropical forests where they have adapted to relatively low levels of light and fairly constant moderate to warm temperatures. As a result, many make good houseplants. A few of the…
Perennials for Sandy Soils: A Toronto Master Gardeners Guide
Perennials are plants that renew themselves each year from their hardy roots. Some plants live for only 2-3 years while others last a long time. Although there are woody perennials, such as trees and shrubs, the plants most people refer…
Long Blooming Perennials: A Toronto Master Gardeners Guide
Perennials are plants that renew themselves each year from their hardy roots. Although there are woody perennials, such as trees and shrubs, the plants most people refer to as perennials are herbaceous plants that die back to the ground…
Annuals for Shade: A Toronto Master Gardeners Guide
An annual plant is one that completes its life cycle from seed to plant to bloom and back to seed again in one season. Annual flowers are often bright, colourful and very floriferous. In this way, they attract pollinating insects…