Please provide specific benefits of native gardening. Thanks.…
I bought perennial sweet peas in a garden centre in Toronto and planted them in my garden because they look pretty but after a couple of years they became very invasive and is destroying my other plants by climbing on…
Get rid of stinging nettles around a garden plot fence that is growing and invading the plot.
Also get rid of a hops vine that I have dug up twice and it returns.
Location is Leslie Street City garden plot.…
Toronto Beaches garden
Volunteer sproted in container this spring
Sun, fairly dry
Fast-growing, twining form
Now 6 feet high from base in green pot…
Hi, We have a contained 8.5 x by 16 foot patch of South facing front yard in mid Toronto, awaiting plants. Below it is a 2.5 x 8.5 foot patch (also contained.) photo attached.
Both “containers” have 3 feet of…
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I have an unsightly retaining wall at the back of my yard. I’m hoping to plant some nice perennial vines at the top of it this spring that will cascade or trail down the wall. I’m hoping to…
What is the most fragrant, noninvasive Honeysuckle vine for Toronto?…
Hello Master Gardeners,
I am a children’s librarian with TPL and aspire to do a seed bomb program involving native wildflower species for school-age children during March Break. Do you know where I might find a small quantity of several…
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We have a west/south facing deck with lots of sun all day. We would like to grow wild grape in a flower bed near steps to the deck to give us some shade and fruit. We do not…
Hello Toronto Master Gardeners, we are renting a place. Ideally, we would like to plant something that provides privacy in the shortest possible time. Maybe planning for next year.
The area is large and very sunny. There is fence, perfect…