Small garden area, huge tree
I am so sorry. I can’t localize your answer to my question (email) about what to plant in a small garden, facing south, with a huge tree.
My apologies.…
Tag Archives: shade
Small plants and shrubs that grow well under an old very big sugar maple tree
I live in Toronto on a ravin lot. I have a very big old maple tree that absorbs all the water and nutrition. Apart from Hostas not much is happy growing in this location. It has few hours of mid…
Which is the best and durable ornamental grass?
I am planning to plant a few ornamental grasses in between rocks on the shady side of the garden. The soil is sandy and I am located in Toronto.…
Ground Covers for Slope
Hi there,
My yard backs in a slope about 50 degree in North York. I’m looking for a recommendation for a low maintenance, shade tolerant ground cover that could help control erosion on an east facing but fully shaded steep…
Need a fast growing disease resistance tree in southern Ontario
At my neighbour’s request, the city of Etobicoke/Toronto just cut down a shade tree of towering height and leaving a stump of about 6′ across. (My guess, the age of the tree was about 100 years or more.) As of…
fiddleheads
I would like to grow edible fiddleheads in my north-facing partial sun plot. Please advise where could I find/purchase/forage seedlings of ostrich fern in an attempt to grow and harvest fiddleheads? Thank you :)…
Mother-Daughter Gardens. A bond, a comfort and a continuation.
My mum, really misses her garden and I’m going my best to keep her magical world alive, despite the move to a retirement home.
Mum, just moved into a retirement home near me. She was responsible for creating a garden…
Flowering Shrub Recommendation
I’d like to plant a tall, flowering shrub along the west side of my yard. There is a 4 foot fence along that side of the property so the shrub needs to be at least that tall. My neighbour to…
Backyard Privacy Trees
We live in north Toronto and with big new builds behind us we have no privacy. We face south but limited sun due to 2 100ft trees either side of property. So old they have limited branches and no privacy.…
Deerfoot as Groundcover
I was in Burlington over the weekend and the homeowners had a plant called deerfoot. It looked a bit like rhubarb. I want ground cover for a large shady area that often has pine needles on it. Grass will not…
