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Great Garden Combinations
Thinking about perennial combinations in the middle of winter is folly of course but what else to dream away a miserable dull winter day? I asked one of my favourite gardeners, Monique Dobson, if she...
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Summer in the garden
Perennials are popping up where I’d forgotten I’d planted them, spring flowering shrubs are just about over and there’s been a huge opportunity on the perfection of these June day to whack the place...
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landscape restoration
Restoring a garden after a landscaper has had his hand on it is a tough job. We’re in the middle of that now. No prep, plants plunked in, burlap and metal still intact, and where’s the expensive...
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Summer in the garden
This has been the busiest season ever for our design business meaning that seven day work weeks have kept me hopping. Here’s the garden this week. It’s a riot of foliage colour, depth and layering. I...
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City Trees under Stress
It’s dreadful what we do to city trees. Yet another old one was chopped down on our street last week. There might have been a reason (a Norway maple of great age, hollow in the middle) but it also...
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The horror happened on our street this week. Truck after truck carted away trees, hostas, shrubs and soil. All gone. Then more trucks rolled in with herbicides to spray the ground, truckloads of...
View ArticleDienanthe plant of the week
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/home-and-garden/gardening/plant-of-the-week-dienanthe-caerula/article13674818/ This is the long long connector for my Globe and Mail column last week. It also has...
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SUMMER IN THE GARDEN: moving plants
It has been the busiest summer of a busy life. We have installed so many gardens and now things are slowing down and I can take a breath and be in m own garden. Here we pulled out trees and shrubs and...
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SUMMER NEWSLETTER
This edition of the quarterly is in a new format. Our webmistress is on holidays so here it is as a blog: The Garden July 2015 The garden has been giving a huge amount of pleasure all year. But this...
View ArticleHydrangea: Plant of the Week
Here’s my column for this week: From: Hydrangea paniculata ‘Bobo’: The perfect plant for the urban gardener – The Globe and Mail...
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