Spring is just around the corner, and if you’re a gardening enthusiast, you know what that means – it’s time to get your hands dirty and prepare your garden for the upcoming season. But before you jump right in, you need to complete a few essential things to ensure your garden thrives this spring. Here [...]
When we are ready to get growing in the early spring, there is no plant that is more loved or promoted as the spring annual to plant. Generations of gardeners have planted pansies for their full, colourful faces, happy flowers, and spring (and fall) hardiness. Violas have been jumping up in our gardens for years [...]
Preparing for Alberta’s landscape and gardening season is tough with Mother Nature’s mood swings. Are you leaving for work in your winter jacket and shedding layers by lunchtime? Albertans know they can’t predict their spring wardrobe or the last snowfall, but we’ve perfected preparing for a better 2022 landscape season. How to Prepare for the [...]
May is finally here! As a gardener it has felt like it has taken forever to get here, as a Garden Centre it feels like we’ve been in full swing for 6 weeks or more already! So much anticipation and hurry to get growing is proof positive that the large increase in gardeners is not [...]
For prairie and foothills gardeners one of the toughest things as we head into April is practicing the art of Patience. March as usual brought about an early tease to spring, followed by wicked wind, snow and cold nights that plunged many people back to reality. This month we should continue to Plan and Prepare [...]
The weather of late has certainly been frightful, putting a bit of a damper on thoughts of spring; but no winter lasts forever, no spring skips it’s turn. I could find all kinds of quotes to help us turn the tide of this seasonal impatience, but it will come when it will come. In the [...]
Finally, we’re into the full swing of the garden season! Mother Nature was sure slow to get us started this year, impatient gardeners everywhere are now well into getting gardens planted, creating beautiful patio containers and tending to perennial and shrub beds. Weeding, watering and adding plants has become part of daily routine. Watching skies [...]
Wow, suddenly spring is upon us! With a bit of a later start than last year, signs of spring are showing up all at once. Prairie crocuses are waking up among the dead grasses in various parks around Calgary, trees are quickly budding up, tulips and spring bulbs are well on their way and temperatures [...]
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