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Canada’s growers look to reopening garden centres to salvage dire year
Using patches of annuals in the landscape
Perfect for those hard-to-plant areas they will add colour and be inexpensive if using self-seeders
Start some tithonia seeds for added colour in the garden
This member of the sunflower family is also very drought tolerant
Dreaming of gardens to come
Now is a good time to plan and dream about the 2019 garden
Goldenrod is a true harbinger of autumn
When we see the golden blooms we know that fall is fast approaching
Echinacea — an attractive, long-blooming plant
Flowers start in early July and continue through late summer and well into September
Insect habitat campaigns reaching goals
Bees and monarch butterflies depend on disappearing habitat and campaigns to plant more are getting a lot of attention
Video: Exhibit shows pollination isn’t only done by bees
Museum curator Diana Bizecki Robson hopes it helps public deepen their understanding of all types of pollinators and to take actions that help these organisms thrive
Shelterbelts the bee’s knees for pollinators
Bees and insect predators can help boost yields and cut losses, but farmers have to provide a good home
Shelterbelts don’t just keep topsoil from blowing way. They also provide homes for pollinator species, a group that includes butterflies, beetles, birds, wasps, flies – and even monkeys in some countries. But far and away the most effective of all are the bees, said Mark Wonneck, an ecologist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. “They are