Colleen Zacharias

Breaking News, Sports, Manitoba, Canada

Breaking News, Sports, Manitoba, Canada

“I don’t know how she does it,” says Lyndon Penner about his friend, Leslie Halsall. Penner, head gardener at Riding Mountain National Park, frequently trades flower seeds with Halsall, a flower farme...

Breaking News, Sports, Manitoba, Canada

Breaking News, Sports, Manitoba, Canada

For the past 20 years, Michelle Paterson’s favourite thing to do every morning during the summer has been to step outside her back door and into her garden. With a cup of coffee in hand, she enjoyed w...

There is a huge opportunity in our own landscapes to reduce carbon emissions. With global temperatures expected to soar in the next five years, fuelled in part by heat-trapping greenhouse gases, accor...

When landscape design professionals meet with their potential clients, they pay close attention to what their clients need and want. Demand by customers for pollinator-friendly plants that support nature and biodiversity has gone from niche to mainstream. Biodiversity-saving solutions and initiatives, though, go beyond plants that provide wildlife habitat. A growing number of landscape professionals are adopting ecological practices that are changing the face of landscape design.

Each new year brings gardeners oodles of new plant varieties to consider for our outdoor spaces. Despite the vast number of new annuals and perennials, most are the result of extensive breeding, development, and trialing over a period of several years prior to their introduction to the market. Here are some of the fascinating newcomers to watch for in 2023.

There is something breathtaking about the rows and rows of flowers at cut flower farms.