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Give Zinnias A Try

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Zinnias always find their way into my garden. Even though I have gradually changed most of my flower borders to mainly perennials, I cannot resist having some zinnias, either tucked into a flower bed somewhere or grown in a row in the vegetable patch. One reason that I like zinnias is that they make great
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Daylily Division

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September is a good time to dig up, move and divide perennials. Naturally we want to wait until late September or early October to do this for perennials which are still producing some bloom; there is no point in cutting short the bloom period as it is short enough as it is in my area.
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Harvesting Seeds

The practice of collecting seeds from the garden is as old as gardening itself. In decades past, gardeners did not purchase many seeds; most were gathered from the garden in the fall. Harvesting seeds is not as popular as it once was. One reason is that many of the plants we now grow in our
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Ugly Perennials Getting Admiring Looks

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In a back corner of the Ian N. Morrison Research Farm is a nursery of what most farmers would consider butt-ugly plants with spindly stems, tiny seeds, and weedy characteristics. But they might just be the salvation of grain farming if the impact of climate change falls hard on the Canadian Prairies. The plots contain
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Tall Perennial Ground Covers

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Most gardeners are familiar with ground covers that are the “creepy, crawly” type, – those that hug the ground and form a thick mat on the soil surface. There is another category of ground covers, however, that is just as useful in the landscape and the good thing about this group of plants is that
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Growing A Weigela

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The weigela might be one of the easiest and most eye-pleasing shrubs to have in your flower bed, with its upright growth, heavy blooming and being almost maintenance free. Weigela is drought tolerant, although on very hot days it will need watering as leaves must be hydrated. Flowers range from white to ruby red, and
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Don’t Miss The Small Stuff

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A walk in any of our parks can be a rewarding experience. Even if we don’t see any large animals, there are other wild things to look for. Birds of all types sing from the bushes and trees and there are numerous wildflowers to be on the lookout for. On a stay in the Tur
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Lady’s Slippers — Orchids In The Wild

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One of our most interesting wildflowers is the lady’s slipper – a variety of the wild orchid family – which is named for its shoe-shaped blossoms. There are six distinct species of lady’s slippers in Manitoba, as well as a couple of recently discovered hybrids. They range from quite common varieties, to fairly rare ones,
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Early July Is The Perfect Time

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We don’t often think of July as the time to be digging up our perennials and dividing them. Usually this task is relegated to either the early spring before much new growth has developed, or in the fall after the plants have gone into dormancy. Bearded iris are special, however, in that they should be
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Mexico Closes Border To Canadian Seed

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Canada’s canary seed growers are asking Ottawa to intervene in a trade dispute which has shut them out of their largest export market. Mexico has resumed an import ban on canary seed from Canada one year after first imposing it, despite an interim agreement between the two countries to restore normal trade. The Canadian Special

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