Dog strangling vine smothering
Hi there,
Cold you please advise if I should smother a patch of this weed now or in the spring. I feel like cardboard would disintegrate over the winter and have to be replaced in the spring? It’s at the…
Ask Categories: Herbaceous Perennials; Invasive
Canada Thistle
My garden is being taken over by Canada Thistle. I have pulled and sprayed and tried planting to crowd them out to no avail. What is the best way to get rid of them?…
Can I cut back milk weed in July and not lose butterfly eggs?
I have probably a hundred milk weed plants that have popped up in my garden. I did want them but they have taken over the garden. I did remove several early in the season but I also wanted to have…
severe spring stunting
Hi there,
My hot, dry front garden hosts a native perennial wildflower garden. It’s a mix of plants I’ve started from seed or bought from nurseries. It is primarily blackeyed susans, purple bee balm, coreopsis and purple coneflowers. In recent…
Bee gardening
can miscanthus grasses accomodate solitary bee nesting ? i have lots – most of the stems are @3/16″ diameter and full of white ‘pith’ – seems like a lot of fairly stiff digging and how wide is a bee ?…
Native Wildflower Seeds
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…
Balloon Flower (Platycodon grandiflorus) – is it invasive?
I was organizing my seeds for sowing and came across you article https://torontobotanicalgarden.ca/get-gardening/annas-pick-balloon-flower/ and an article https://pegplant.com/2017/08/01/invasive-balloon-flower-takes-over-the-garden/ that suggested Balloon Flower is invasive. I did not find it listed as an invasive species in Ontario https://www.ontarioinvasiveplants.ca/invasive-plants/species/. I wonder if…
Plant ID-My Plant Resembles Elephant Ears
Can you help identify this plant growing in full sun randomly in different spots of his yard. Zone 8, Texas. Is it a weed or safe as he has a young child who plays in the yard.…
Do you have piper auritum?
Hi, good morning. I’m trying to find the plant piper auritum. By any chance do you have. I really I would like to buy that plant.
Thanks so much…
Containing Bindweed
I am dealing with bindweed in both my garden and my lawn. I know the only way to eradicate it is to keep cutting it off at ground level which I am doing in the garden, but not able to…