When we plant and nurture, compost and mulch, place bird feeders, baths and houses we are doing much to change the biodiversity of the neighbourhood, whether we intend to or not.

If one of your goals in designing your garden is to attract desirable wildlife that is environmentally beneficial to your yard and neighbourhood, this should interest you: the most beneficial addition to your yard and garden that you can possibly make is a water feature.

If we hit a short dry spell you may have garden plants that are wilting before your eyes.

A reminder of the changes that are occurring right before your eyes and under your feet out in your garden. A ‘could do’ list for the August long weekend.

Toronto Star column – published July 26th, 2014 It is the last week of July and the summer is flying by. Time to slow it down just a bit, linger a little over the Saturday paper and indulge me for a minute. I have been saving up some random bits of news for you. The…

There are many public parks in and around the GTA that offer incentives for you to visit. Check out my list of many venues

Toronto Star column – published July 12, 2014 While on a recent trip to British Columbia I happened to walk into a gas station to pay for some gas when I was accosted by a large illuminated sign that read, ‘Bread Garden’. What? A refrigerator featured premade sandwiches, wrapped in cello, stamped with long range…

Consider the benefits of a travelling vine that makes its way up your wall or twines itself through a fence.

Park People, Toronto, is lead by Mr. Harvey and he lives, breaths and talks about our parks with the same passion that a knitting addict talks about their past-time.

When you are hoeing down weeds, trimming winter damaged shrubs, planting, mulching, digging and generally mucking about in the dirt, all kinds of things pass through your mind.

One of the many pies in which the United Way has its fingers is in 17 community gardens across Toronto.

Here is your Fruit Tree Primer: 101. Armed with this information you can wade into your local garden retailer and look over the selection of choice trees with confidence that you know something about the subject.

National Garden Day[s] is an opportunity for gardening enthusiasts, families and schools to share their knowledge and passion for gardening and the outdoors.

As part of this year’s Garden Days program, being held across the country from June 13 to 15, the Canadian Garden Council invites you to enter the ‘Best Garden Street’ Contest.

Plants that produce a great crop year in, year out AND they are pretty low maintenance.

For unstoppable colour and ‘low maintenance’ [which is code for ‘able to withstand dryness between watering’], I recommend the following.

Now that you are an adult, there is an expectation that you give this a little more thought relative to what the gift may mean to her. Once again, I am here to expand your mind on a critically important topic. You don’t want to let your Mom, Grandmother, or Mother-in-Law down, especially the latter.

What are invasive plants and what are the alternatives to planting some of my favourites?

As you venture out of doors you will not be greeted with the most uplifting of sights, no doubt. Welcome to the spring of 2014. The results of the most severe winter weather in living memory are before us.

I am here to remind you of the most important garden activity of the year. The soil, in which all of your garden plants put down roots, needs attention.