Garden Clippings for Sept 19, 2025 What do you do if agriculture is your primary industry, but land is preciously scarce? You build a...

Garden clippings for September 4, 2025 Convince me otherwise, but I’ve never had much appreciation for Rose of Sharon. Their blooms,...

Garden Clippings for August 30, 2025 Summer gardening activities are threefold: weeding, feeding and watering. Weed the vegetable patch,...

Garden Clippings for August 23 As weeds go, Bindweed has got to be the worst. Bindweed’s quick growing stems will twist and twine through...

Garden Clippings for August 30, 2025 The bees are buzzing, the butterflies are fluttering, and the hummingbirds are humming. Our backyard...

Garden Clippings for August 16, 2025 Hydrangeas are getting bigger in number but smaller in size. Last week we explored the category of...

Garden Clippings for August 9, 2025 The world of Hydrangeas is getting bigger in number and smaller in size. Early this spring, the...

Garden Clippings for August 2, 2025 The summer flowering perennials in my backyard are in their full glory, delivering a riot of colour,...

Garden Clippings for July 19, 2025 The dog days of summer have arrived. The veggie garden has been planted, shrubs have been pruned,...

Garden Clippings for July 12, 2025 Mine is quite likely the only Eskimo Sunset Maple in Lambton County. Ben bought it for me when he was...

Garden Clippings for June 28, 2025.                My neighbour has been gardening all her life.  She started as a kid helping her folks...

Garden Clippings for June 21, 2025                History wasn’t my favorite course in high school, and that was despite having an...

Boxwood Alternatives Garden Clippings for June 7, 2025       The Boxwood battle has begun.  Here in Sarnia-Lambton we’ve dodged the...

Drought Tolerant Annuals Garden Clippings for May 31, 2025 Someday, someday, we will put away our sweaters and jackets and put on our...

Bunnies Garden Clippings for June 14, 2025                Cute as a bunny.  Furry little creatures that hop away when you get near...

Cedars explained Garden Clippings for May 3, 2025 My guess is that it would have been 40 or 50 years ago that the original homeowner...

Creeping Charlie Garden Clippings for May 10, 2025 A year ago, when it was still acceptable behavior to travel to the US, I attended a...

Brunnera, Ligularia & Hellebore Garden Clippings for May 17, 2025 Hostas will always be king of the shade garden. Hostas are extremely...

Our front lawn has never looked better, thanks to rainfall once a week for June, July and August. Even September’s mini drought was good...

There is little joy to be found for folks behind the wheel when driving along the 401and 402 in Southwestern Ontario unless you...