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Brugmansia mania

By Steven Biggs Filed Under: Plants

Brugmansias are showy tropical charmers that bring colour and a sweet scent to the garden. (Photo by Wikipedia)

Steven Biggs has an obsession for Brugmansias – woody tropicals with hanging flowers. Here’s his tips for displaying, growing and overwintering brugmansia.

A passion for lavender

By Beckie Fox Filed Under: Plants

More home gardeners are growing lavenders such as English lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) for fragrance and culinary use. (Photo by Joanne Young)

The dreamy scent of lavender is a long-standing favourite, but our appreciation of its culinary potential is still growing.

Fall-blooming colchicums

By Lorraine Flanigan Filed Under: Plants

Colchicums are a welcome surprise in fall. (Garden Making photo)

One of the loveliest fall bloomers are Colchicum. Colchicums also make ideal container plants. How to grow, and common misconceptions about colchicums.

Baptisias take centre stage

By Stephen Westcott-Gratton Filed Under: Plants

Blue false indigo (Baptisia australis) likes full sun and is drought tolerant once established. (Garden Making photos)

There’s nothing false about the rising popularity of baptisias. They deserve all their new-found attention.

Growing oxalis indoors and out

By Lorraine Hunter Filed Under: Containers, Plants

The purple shamrock (Oxalis regnelli) has dainty tubular flowers. (Photo by BS Thurner Hof via Wikimedia Commons)

Oxalis are grown for their shamrock-shaped foliage and dainty little tubular flowers that fold up on cloudy days and at night. Easy to grow indoors or out.

Starting tuberous begonias

By Dugald Cameron Filed Under: April in the garden, Plants, Spring season

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.

More picks for favourite plants

By Lorraine Flanigan Filed Under: Plants

Hellebore (Garden Making photo)

Our roundup of favourite plants comes from freelance writer Lorraine Flanigan who asked gardeners to pick just one plant. More that didn’t fit in magazine.

Plant picks: New for 2015

By Beckie Fox Filed Under: New plants, Plants

EnduraScape purple verbena (Photo from Ball Horticulture)

More plant picks for 2015 from nurseries, plant breeders and wholesalers, and seed companies.

Perennials that bloom the first year from seed

By Judith Adam Filed Under: Making a Garden, Plants

Camelot Mix foxgloves (Photo from Veseys)

Sowing seed indoors during deepest winter can prompt some perennials into blooming in their first season. How to grow perennials that bloom the first year from seed.

Secrets to growing a stephanotis vine

By Judith Adam Filed Under: Making a Garden, Plants

Stephanotis plants can be coaxed to rebloom. (Photo by Forest & Kim Starr [CC-BY-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons)

A pot of white stephanotis vine (Madagascar jasmine) with clusters of deeply perfumed flowers can become a lovely vine grown in a container.

In praise of Verbena bonariensis

By Jodi DeLong Filed Under: Plants

Tall verbena in a mixed border. (Photos by Jodi DeLong)

Christopher Lloyd planted Verbena bonariensis, commonly called tall verbena, at Great Dixter in England, and now Jodi DeLong enjoys it in Nova Scotia.

Bedding plants catch the eye

By Beckie Fox Filed Under: Plants

Bandana Landscape Pink lantana (Garden Making photo)

Many new bedding plants are being introduced. Here’s what caught my eye at the 35th Canadian Greenhouse Conference.

‘Honorine Jobert’ is a lovely late Japanese anemone

By Judith Adam Filed Under: Making a Garden, Plants

‘Honorine Jobert’ Japanese anemone blooms in mid-September. (Photo from www.PerennialResource.com)

The sparkling white ‘Honorine Jobert’ Japanese anemone begins flowering about the middle of September, and is a Judith Adam favourite. Its tall stature gives it architectural presence.

The thrill of finding a new-to-me plant — Anemonopsis

By Jodi DeLong Filed Under: Plants

Pretty markings on Anemonopsis. (Photos by Jodi DeLong)

Anemonopsis macrophylla is a native of Japan, a member of the buttercup (Ranunculaceae) family, and related to hellebores, anemones, ranunculus and trollius.

Hummingbirds love the nectar from turtlehead

By Judith Adam Filed Under: August in the Garden, Making a Garden, Plants, Summer

turtlehead

Pink turtlehead, sometimes called twisted shell flower, are showy plants that provide nectar loved by hummingbirds. They prefer nectar over sugar water.

Mildew-resistant lilacs

By Judith Adam Filed Under: Making a Garden, Plants, Summer

Dealing with powdery mildew on lilacs can require replacing them with mildew-resistant cultivars. Mildew spores are active in late summer.

The scents of it all

By Jodi DeLong Filed Under: August in the Garden, Plants, Summer

When Jodi DeLong walks in her garden, she breathes in the scents – layers of fragrance from petite sprigs of lavender to huge blooms of angels’ trumpet.

Time for more Martagon lilies

By Judith Adam Filed Under: Making a Garden, Plants

Martagon lily from Vesey's

The flowers resemble butterflies in flight, says Judith Adam about Martagon lilies. Their appeal includes tall skinny stems and speckled petals.

‘Blue Paradise’ summer phlox

By Judith Adam Filed Under: Making a Garden, Plants, Summer

The ‘Blue Paradise’ summer phlox (Phlox paniculata ‘Blue Paradise’) is lavishly blooming in Judith’s sunny front bed. It’s a cultivar bred for mildew resistance.

For the love of monarchs

By Jodi DeLong Filed Under: July in the Garden, Plants, Summer

Jodi DeLong plants rosy milkweed (Asclepias incarnate) and several of its relatives to support monarch butterflies. Monarchs are pollinating insects.

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