Posts Tagged ‘Perennials’

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  Perennials for small gardens: Choose flowers and foliage that will stand out

  by Tara Nolan

  I love going for walks through my neighbourhood and on garden tours, and seeing which plants the resident gardeners have chosen,...

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  How to harvest lavender for bouquets, culinary uses, and DIY projects

  by Tara Nolan

  My love for lavender stems back to a trip to Provence before my last year of university. I have a postcard of the lavender fields...

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  Pink perennials for the garden: A gradient of rosy shades from pale pink to fuchsia

  by Tara Nolan

  I’ll admit it, one of my favourite colours is pink. If I see pink perennials at the garden centre and I need a plant to fill a...

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  How to plant roses: Planting bare root roses and potted shrub roses

  by Tara Nolan

  In the last few years, plant breeders have come out with some really great varieties of hardy roses that are disease-resistant...

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  Deer-resistant perennials: Beautiful blooms and foliage for spring, summer, and fall

  by Tara Nolan

  The other day I watched a deer walk through one of my raised beds, ignore the sage and chives, and amble right up to my patch of...

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  The daylily: A perfect perennial for the summer garden

  by Niki Jabbour

  A daylily is perhaps the perfect perennial. It thrives in full sun to partial shade, grows happily in a range of soil conditions,...