begonias

Tall blue salvia, coleus, double impatiens and English ivy. (Garden Making photo)

Perfect container plants

Beckie Fox

When shopping for container plants, it helps to have a list of favourites that you can always count on. Here are Beckie Fox's suggestions.

Dahlias hail from warmer parts of the globe and can’t withstand our deep-freeze winters. Make sure to properly store your dahlia tubers this winter. (Photo by Joanne Young)

4 steps to overwinter tender plants

Lorraine Flanigan

From callas and cannas to begonias and dahlias, here are 4 steps to give summer-flowering tender plants the TLC they need to survive the winter.

Starting tuberous begonias

Dugald Cameron

Begonias can flower continuously from June until frost, have blooms lasting over a week, are super easy to grow and come in just about every colour.

Solenia begonias (Photo by Garden Making)

Vivid colours in President’s Choice new plants

Beckie Fox

President’s Choice new plants for Loblaw Company stores in 2014 pop with vivid colours of dahlias, verbenas, calibrachoas, begonias, gloxinia.

Male and female blooms on tuberous begonias. Photo courtesy of Gardenimport.com

Growing tuberous begonias

Judith Adam

Begonia tubers are lumpy, brown potato-like forms that grow to produce large double blooms on upright or hanging plants. Tips from Judith Adam.

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