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Dividing Time

By Lorraine • Oct 8th, 2010 • Category: Dig in, Fall

How did your plants spend their summer vacation? Walk out into the garden and take a look around. Have the Siberian irises crowded out the phlox? Are the stems of your yarrow lazily flopping over its neighbours? Has the centre of the your silvery artemisia browned-out? Did you notice how much smaller the peony flowers [...]


3 of 10 Ways to Spruce Up Your Garden for Spring

By Lorraine • Mar 17th, 2010 • Category: Dig in, Spring

3. Divide and conquer Think back to last season. Did the flowers of your phlox seem a bit smaller than previous seasons? Did the middle of your clump of dianthus brown out? Were the stems of your yarrow so tightly packed that they seemed to be choking the life out of the plant? These are [...]