Butterflies are easily attracted to your garden as long as you know a few basic things about them, and how to make your garden a hospitable place for them! The...
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Owner Cobblestone Garden Centre, designer, hort grower, writer, & educator. Language enthusiast, sports fanatic, music & arts lover, volunteer, youth advocate
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Living Better through Horticulture
Flip open any magazine, read any newspaper, listen to the radio for a couple hours, or browse the internet and inevitably you will find a section about how to...
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Bed Bugs ARGGGGGG!!!!
On a recent flight from Phoenix with my family, I had the very distinct displeasure of spotting a bed bug on the passenger seat in front of me. In an instant...
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2014 Olympic Athlete Bouquets: Horticulture from Sochi
Officially founded in Olympia, Greece almost 3000 years ago, the Olympic Games have long represented both excellence in sport as well as goodwill between...
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Amazing Houseplants part 4 of 4
In the last three articles, we explored a few of the high performing, easy-to-grow indoor plants for our Northern homes. Tropical, succulent, and cactus plants...
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Amazing Houseplants part 3 of 3
“Cactus” – the word drums up all sorts of images. The romantic will envision scenes of towering saguaros in the Texan landscape, barrel cacti in...
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Amazing Houseplants part 2
Last week, we talked about what a houseplant actually is – namely a plant that natively grows outdoors in warmer climates and which we import to our indoors...
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Amazing Houseplants
With the doldrums of winter upon us, beautifying our indoor spaces with houseplants is good for both the body and soul. Growing living greenery indoors not...
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Roses – The World’s Favorite Flowers
Just this week I was speaking to a botanist who specializes in roses and was told some amazing facts about the world’s favorite flower… Roses have...
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Gardening Through The Seasons
One of my fondest memories as a young girl growing up in the prairies was visiting my grandma’s country garden. A lifelong gardener, Donna Mae (as she...