Outdoor Plants That Even You Can’t Kill

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  Purple Rain Desert Rose No, it’s not only music superstar Prince’s magnum opus, it’s also a gorgeous species of sage properly named Salvia Verticillata. This border flower can accentuate any garden, and they even attract butterflies! These smoke-colored lavender-like plants only need moist soil to grow, and do best in full sunlight. Desert Rose […]

Weeds We Love to Eat, Alberta Edition

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Don’t forget to floss your teeth, clean behind your ears and…eat your weeds? Weeds may have a bad reputation when it comes to lawn care, but there are many weeds that are well worth eating! During your next peaceful walk through the forest make sure to bring a reusable container and collect these delicious weeds– […]

Building Raised Gardens

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Building Raised Gardens Looking to elevate your outdoor space? Try physically elevating your gardens and build a raised garden. Especially if you are working with a limited outdoor area, raised gardens are a fun DIY project to maximize your area and are the perfect backyard addition for growing vegetables and herbs. There are DIY kits […]

4 Factors to Consider When Landscaping Your Home Garden

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Growing a beautiful garden can be a wonderful hobby, and a great way to pass the time. Gardening continues to top lists of favorite activities year after year, and it is easy to understand way. Working in the garden, and enjoying the results, is a great deal of fun, and a garden can even increase […]

Good Landscape Design and the Importance of Trees

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  Trees will be the largest elements of most landscaping projects, and it is important to give these denizens of the landscape the respect and care they deserve.  Part of this consideration is arranging those trees properly, in order to provide both the healthiest trees and the most spectacular views. When designing the new landscape, […]

What is the Point? Why Coniferous plants have a place in our gardens

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Every fall we say goodbye to another season of beautiful flowers and perennials.  With the on set of fall, we see five months of dreary snowy blah.  If you have laid out your garden with careful planning, you may be able to create some interesting textures and colours from the bark colour of shrubs and […]