April in the garden

Chive blossoms (Photo by Carol Pope)

5 bee-supporting perennial edibles to grow

Carol Pope

These 5 perennial edibles grow without fuss, look gorgeous, add fabulous flavour and health-boosting goodness to your meals. And their flowers support bees.

When shopping for plants, choose healthy, well-grown specimens. (Garden Making photo)

5 tips for shopping for new plants

Garden Making

To help you when shopping for plants for your garden, these 5 tips will help you choose healthy, well-grown specimens, especially trees and shrubs.

Red Hot Returns daylily (Photo from Heritage Perennials)

Hepaticas: harbingers of spring

Jodi DeLong

What garden event signifies to you that spring has really, truly arrived in your part of the country?

'Charles Lamont' viburnum is an early-blooming shrub. Photo by Brendan Zwelling

When to apply spring fertilizers

Judith Adam

When is the best time to provide spring fertilizers to help the plants restore themselves? Acting too quickly can sometimes interfere with what's best.

'Yellow Apeldoorn' tulips are reliable rebloomers.

It’s tulip time

Judith Adam

May is prime time for tulips, and perhaps you have some thick stands of stems with buds beginning to turn colour.

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