Colleen Zacharias

Colleen Zacharias has written the weekly gardening column for Winnipeg Free Press since 2010, covering a wide range of gardening topics and including interviews with home gardeners, growers, retailers, and landscape designers. Colleen is a master gardener and graduate of the Prairie Horticulture certificate program. She volunteers with Trees Winnipeg. Her favourite plant is the hydrangea.

This meadow garden replaced an area of turf grass and has been planted with wildflowers such as Gaillardia and Wild Bergamot. (Photos: Prairie Flora)

How to make a meadow

Colleen Zacharias

Against a backdrop of Skybound cedars, Swiss Stone pine shines in this Winnipeg backyard. Photo credit: John Leperre

Pines – evergreens for all seasons

Colleen Zacharias

Wide planting beds are easier to design because they provide space for focal points, such as birdbaths or columnar trees.

Create your dream garden from scratch

Beckie Fox

Two tall cedars act as punctuation in this large garden, and also signal where the entrance is to the vegetable garden on the other side of the hedge.

Punctuation in the garden

Karen York

white garden

Design a white garden

Judith Adam