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Creating a shade garden that flourishes in a palette of greens can be both fulfilling and challenging. An all-green garden evokes...

Soil is undoubtedly one of the most important aspects of growing anything. Soil has formed over millennia from parent materials of mountains and volcanoes, and from powerful natural events such as the ice age. In Canada we have ten major divisions of soil orders. Classified largely on the presence or lack of soil horizons in a given area, and the primary environmental forces that helped create them. From these general classifications, soil is further defined into Great groups

I have a particular fondness for "winter heather." Every January, as you drive through Victoria, Langford, or any Greater Victoria...

Although many people may not consider this idea often, a plant's root system and root fibers need oxygen. Unlike the plant's upper parts,...

I have a strong passion for plants and flowers, and I am fascinated by the process of transforming spaces into functional, aesthetically...

Plants have developed an amazing ability to harvest the suns energy, and essentially store it in chemical bonds. They uptake carbon...