Our many beautiful gardens, like Van Dusen, Butchart, Nitobe and UBC Botanical Gardens, have wonderful displays of winter colour, and it makes a visit at this time of the year worthwhile.

There have been a few concerns, almost worldwide, with some varieties of boxwoods, especially because of boxwood blight and insect issues. It’s great to see a whole new series of blight-resistant ...

It’s the first week of March and with that amazing burst of warmer weather we enjoyed recently, we’re all looking for colour in our gardens. Folks who planted snowdrops, yellow winter aconites ...

Box stores, particularly Home Depot, are dominant in the U.S. market, but in Canada, independent garden stores are perhaps still stronger as a source of gardening information and plants.

The trends highlighted in the Garden Media report are based on U.S. data, but there are so many similarities to Canada that it is relevant to our country. The first trend identified in the report ...

Minter, meantime, says people are “personalizing” their gardens more and more. “They don’t want just a hedge, they want a living fence,” he says. “They have a deep appreciation for ...

This year promises to be a time of personalized outdoor living areas, according to the trend spotters at the Garden Media Group in the U.S. It predicts that south of the border, about 29 per cent ...

As we decorate our patios for the holiday season, there are a few special winter plants that really stand out. Helleborus niger — more commonly known as the Christmas rose — is, perhaps, the ...