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

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.

The unusual or unexpected attracts interest or attention in the garden. As much as any of us recognize the value of simplifying a colour palette, limiting the number of species and cultivars, and emph...

Matt Schriemer has early memories of spending Saturday mornings filling nursery containers with soilless mix when he was a young child. He performed other tasks, too, in his father’s greenhouses...

Creating and designing a container garden is an opportunity to experience an outstanding spectrum of colour and texture. Movable feasts, container gardens offer a luxuriant start to the growing season...

Evergreen conifers contribute year-round colour and texture in the landscape. Their strong shape is useful as a focal point or for screening a view. Spruce trees (genus Picea) are a favourite choice f...

Discovering the best cucumbers or tomatoes that will thrive in your garden or learning which vegetables work well together or which companion plants are most effective in attracting pollinators or how to increase your crop yield while maximizing your garden space, has just been made easier. The Kitc…

Discovering the best cucumbers or tomatoes that will thrive in your garden or learning which vegetables work well together or which companion plants are most effective in attracting pollinators or how...

Who can resist scouring online catalogues for seeds and plants? Mail order catalogues put tantalizing plant acquisitions within our reach. Practically speaking, whenever new plant or seed catalogs lau...

There are many different elements to consider when planning a landscape design: mass, form, line, texture, colour, and value. Design principles include unity, balance, proportion, rhythm, repetition,...

The distinctive circular front door that welcomes visitors to Kenny and Rebecca Choy’s home imitates the shape of the full moon. The circular shape represents a moon gate and is repeated in the Choy’s backyard garden in the form of a grapevine arch trellis.