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Growing Japanese anemones

Garden Making Editor Beckie Fox with anemones at Niagara Botanical Gardens

The delicate-looking Japanese anemones are fall flowers that you’ll find easy to grow. They can be quite vigorous once established.
Garden Making Editor-in-Chief Beckie Fox tells… Read more

October 11, 2011 Filed Under: Plants Tagged With: Japanese Anemone, Niagara Parks Botanical Garden, Valleybrook Gardens

Ornamental grasses for your garden

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Garden Making Editor Beckie Fox with Tony Post at Valleybrook Gardens (Photo by Mark Disero)

Garden Making Editor-in-Chief Beckie Fox shows you a range of ornamental grasses in the beautiful setting of the Niagara Parks Botanical Garden.
We then take… Read more

September 28, 2011 Filed Under: Plants Tagged With: 'Blood Brothers' switch grass (Panicum virgatum 'Blood Brothers'), 'Wind Dancer' love grass (Eragrostis elliottii 'Wind Dancer'), Beckie Fox, Giant reed (Arundo donax), Japanese blood grass (Imperata cylindrica), Japanese forest grass (Hakonechloa macra), Maiden grasses (Miscanthus spp. and cvs.), Niagara Parks Botanical Gardens, ornamental grasses, Tony Post, Valleybrook Gardens, video, Zebra grass (Miscanthus sinensis 'Zebrinus')

Japanese anemones are easy to grow

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The delicate-looking Japanese anemones are fall flowers that you’ll find easy to grow. They can be quite vigorous once established.
Garden Making Editor-in-Chief Beckie Fox tells… Read more

September 20, 2011 Filed Under: Plants Tagged With: Japanese anemones, Niagara Parks Botanical Gardens, Valleybrook Gardens, video