Do you have a vacation planned for the 2024 Christmas season? Unsure how to successfully prepare your plants for your absence? Here are 5 helpful tips to make sure your tropical plants survive, thrive and remain healthy while you are away!
Yes, there is still time to plant spring flowering bulbs in October! This is one of the most common questions asked by garden centre customers; hopeful they can squeeze more bulb planting into the month before Hallowe’en...
Create An Oasis in Your Home With Tropical Indoor Ferns
Tropical ferns are some of the oldest types of plants on the planet. Fern fossils have been found that are 325 million years old! There are 10,000 species of ferns existing now on earth and each species has its own unique height, shape and growing environment. They are air purifying rainforest plants that have found their way into our garden centres and are enjoyed in our homes.
High on the list of toughest Zone 3 shrubs is the incredible Spirea. Incredible because many old and new cultivars are so easy to grow in any Zone 3 garden. The deciduous shrub Spirea has been around for years and varieties such as Goldflame, Gold Mound, Anthony Waterer, Bridal Wreath and Magic Carpet are the backbone of residential and commercial landscapes...
The beginning of June has arrived and your veggie garden is overflowing with new transplants and germinating seeds. What a great feeling it is to finally have most of the planting done and you can concentrate on watering, fertilizing and the myriad of other chores having a garden brings. All is right with the world, but wait a minute...
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.
