Country Gardener

May is on deck, which means dandelion season will be in full swing. In Ontario, traditional herbicides for killing dandelions, plus a host...

Southern Living magazine's Steven Bender, also known as the Grumpy Gardener , recently issued a challenge to 10 garden bloggers south of...

Did you know that the Canadian government's new Home Renovation Tax Credit extends to some garden and landscaping projects? You have unt...

Here's my contribution to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day. (Head on over to May Dreams to see all the other contributions.) As you can s...

Twilight of the grasses from last season It was very cold yesterday, but dry, so the cutting down of our masses of ornamental grasses went a...

Cornelian cherry dogwood (Cornus mas) Garden snobs love to deride forsythia shrubs as too obvious, common and even vulgar. I have nothing ag...

What a roller coaster week we've had! Sunday was lovely. I spent the afternoon pruning low branches on all the young shade trees in our ...

How do you move a big spiky Agave? Very carefully. This wonderful Agava americana 'Variegata' is the big mother plant from which we...

If you have shrubs in your yard, you need to know something about pruning. My favorite pruning book is Cass Turnbull's Guide to Pruning:...

Photo credit: by Arielle (via Flickr) Forsythia shrubs are enormously popular for their cheerful early spring flowers. If you have this sh...