Spring 2024 is proving to be full of new plant introductions from Proven Winners! Seventy five new plants to be exact. Amazing! You’ll want to make room for five of the new shrub introductions for Zone 3. Happy gardening!
This spring, during the 2024 gardening season, the good people of Proven Winners are introducing a new impressive selection of 75 annuals, perennials, and shrubs. Many are hardy for our Zone 3 climate...
Gardeners in Saskatchewan are well aware of the value of pollinators in our farming based province. There has been a rapid decline of pollinators all over the world. One of these important insect pollinators, the Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus), is considered an endangered species. Monarch populations can fluctuate from year to year but their numbers have greatly reduced over the last ten years...
Anthuriums are in a group called Aroids within the Araceae family. They are native to South America, Mexico and the Caribbean. Some are epiphytic plants living in trees in tropical rain forests...
When you think back to Christmas past, no doubt your grandmother and mother had a Christmas Cactus in a place of honor for all the world to see as it bloomed non-stop during the festive season. Most of the time the plant would have been passed down via cuttings...
Gardening myths abound and are usually passed down from generation to generation and are told as fact. A myth is a “widely held but false belief or idea” (The Oxford dictionary). There is rarely any scientific evidence to back up a myth. For example, one popular gardening myth is that peonies need ants to bloom.