The Skinner Hybrids
Frank Skinner was born in Scotland and immigrated to Canada with his parents in 1895 when he was 13 years old. He soon developed a nursery at Dropmore, Manitoba, where he worked diligently over many years, introducing hardy plants from other ... [... more]
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Giant Perennials: Star Performers for the Garden
 Bold and beautiful plants: This is a fairly basic book that will help new, or fairly new gardeners select and grow large perennials. Perennials - flowers that bloom year after year - are the backbone of many gardens. However many people with small city [... more]
CDN$29.95
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Giant Perennials: Star Performers for the Garden
Bold and beautiful plants: This is a fairly basic book that will help new, or fairly new gardeners select and grow large perennials. Perennials - flowers that bloom year after year - are the backbone of many gardens. However many people with small city [... more]
CDN$21.95
Amazon CA |
Hot Plants for Cool Climates: Gardening with Tropical ...
From Amazon.com: Using flamboyant plants to evoke tropical gardens is the hottest trend in the gardening world, perhaps best described as the "banana and canna" style of garden design. Hot Plants for Cool Climates makes clear, for those of us [... more]
CDN$27.95
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Herbaceous Perennial Plants: A Treatise on Their ...
From Amazon.com: Allan Armitage has a well-deserved reputation for serving up solid information with precision and humor. Now based in Georgia, Armitage began his gardening career in Montreal. Thus, he knows a lot about what happens to plants in both [... more]
CDN$56.99
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Geraniums and Pelargoniums
great basic overview: Both geraniums and pelargoniums belong to the family "Geraniaceae," of which there are 750 species (and thousands of cultivars) scattered over most of the world. Geraniums are the hardy plants that grow in the wild. [... more]
CDN$19.95
Amazon CA |
Herbaceous Perennial Plants: A Treatise on Their ...
From Amazon.com: Allan Armitage has a well-deserved reputation for serving up solid information with precision and humor. Now based in Georgia, Armitage began his gardening career in Montreal. Thus, he knows a lot about what happens to plants in both [... more]
CDN$70.03
Amazon CA |
The Weather-Resilient Garden: A Defensive Approach to ...
How to organize a garden for inclement weather: From hail and ice to summer droughts, gardens can face daunting seasonal survival challenges. Enter gardening expert Charles Smith's Weather-resilient Garden: a "user friendly" guide to planting a [... more]
CDN$22.95
Amazon CA |
Encyclopedia of Hardy Plants: Annuals, Bulbs, Herbs, ...
Author: Derek Fell Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 635.90912 EAN: 9781554072408 Edition: 1 ISBN: 1554072409 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: 2007-01-31 [... more]
CDN$29.95
Amazon CA |
HARDY PERENNIAL PLANTS FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM
There are some exciting new hardy plants available for year 2000 that will light up northern New England gardens. Even though the millennium technically starts at the end of the year 2000, you can enjoy these cold hardy new millennium plants this ... [... more]
Suite101 |
Impossible Gardening: Hot, Dry, Clay Soil, Part Shade-Part 2
Last week I discussed Coneflowers and shasta daisies. This week, let's move on to Russian Sage and Rue which are also hardy plants in USDA Zone 5. As with all the plants in this series, these grow well in dry, clay soil, with part-sun. They also ... [... more]
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Acclimation - Why Did My Plant Die? Redux
Plants die for myriad reasons. Winter injuries, of various kinds, are high on the list. We can all understand why tender plants die when it gets too cold for them, but why do our supposedly hardy plants join the list of winter injuries and ... [... more]
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