Beckie Fox

Visits inspire garden design ideas

Beckie Fox

Visiting gardens farther afield also offers up lots of inspiration, especially garden design ideas that can be transplanted to your own space.

Plant hardiness zones changing, slowly

Beckie Fox

"Will it grow in my zone?" is the pertinent question about plant hardiness for perennials. The lines on the maps for zones are changing, slowly.

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.

A layered look for winter, using branches of red-twig dogwood, southern magnolia and huckleberry. Boxwood would be a good substitute for the huckleberry. The container is viewed only from the front. (Garden Making photo)

Make your own winter arrangements

Beckie Fox

Winter containers use branches from shrubs and trees to add colour and texture for winter arrangements that will last until spring.

Container Gardening Basics

Beckie Fox

In this video, Garden Making's Beckie Fox explains container gardening basics. For success with containers, you need the right container and soil mix.

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