There’s a buzz in the air about local hero Clement Kent, a York University postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biology in York’s Faculty of Science & Engineering and president of the Horticultural Societies of Parkdale and Toronto. Kent founded the Pollinator Garden Project two years ago to teach gardeners, members of the public and school [...]
Whoo-hoo — my copy of No Guff Vegetable Gardening by Donna Balzer and Steven Biggs just arrived! I first met Donna at the Garden Writers Symposium in Portland Oregon — she was chattering on about soil and microbes while we sat on the bus, heading to our next garden-gazing excursion. Soil is a subject very dear to [...]
Whether it’s the World Cup, Olympic Games or the Oscars, everybody loves celebrating a winner, and right now garden communicators like me are congratulating one of our own for her Silver Medal Award-winning garden calendar. The Garden Writers Association has just annouced the winners of its annual awards program, and Niagara Falls-based Theresa Forte has won big [...]
12. Sir Walter A few days into the 2009 Garden Writers Symposium in Raleigh, North Carolina, a fellow garden writer glanced up at the statue in front of the convention centre that we’d passed about a million times and realized it was Sir Walter Raleigh. I’m not sure what took us so long to make the [...]
10. Play Checks My family, friends and most passersby who spy the newspaper on the front porch at 9 a.m. know that I’m not a morning person. So, when I dragged myself out of bed to attend the 8 a.m. keynote speech at the 2009 Garden Writers Symposium in Raleigh, I sincerely hoped it would [...]
6. Natural landscapes for the real world Larry Weaner, a landscape architect based in Glenside, Pennsylviania, opened his talk on “Breaking the Rules” at the 2009 Garden Writers Symposium in Raleigh with a story about how Native Americans were this continent’s first ecologists. Among their sustainable practices was the deliberate division the carex plants [...]
Spotting trends at the Journees des Plantes at Chateau Courson, France is pretty darned easy. Making a fine first impression were Francis Arsene’s towering zinc planters, which lined both sides of the walkway to the entrance booth of the show. Working through his company, Arzinc, Arsene has used zinc to craft everything from furniture, lamps [...]
In small city gardens, it’s often a challenge to find enough space to grow all the ornamental plants you love, let alone veggies and herbs. And if you live in an apartment, it takes a certain dedication not only to find enough space to grow, but to surmount drying winds and scorching temperatures to bring [...]
With fall in the air, all gardeners’ thoughts turn to autumn planters – right? Like opening the closet to examine the state of our fall wardrobes, planning a container of autumn plants signals the change of season from the fun, but toasty days of summer, to the energizingly crisp cool days of fall. Each year [...]
Attention, home-grown garden designers. Canadian Gardening is running an online beauty contest for the best home and garden makeovers. This is a chance for all city gardeners to strut your stuff and show off your horticultural accomplishments. Even if you don’t think your garden is worthy, it’s fun to scroll through the entries with a savvy eye [...]
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