Category: Gardening


October is All About Fall Style! Outdoor Colour Inspiration: Transitioning from Summer to Fall Grub Season: The Plague of Raccoons Digging Up Your Lawn Explained!  Outdoor Design Dilemma: The Right Place for Flower Beds -- See Before & After! Real People Living in Condos: Container Gardening  Real Garden Photos: Stephanie's Love at First Sight Yard, North Bay, ON It's Backyard Living Month! Curb Appeal: My Front Garden Makeover Top 5 Friday: Trends in Gardening and Outdoor Decor Curb Appeal: Tips for Your Lawn Curb Appeal: Sarah Richardson's Top 10 Tips Curb Appeal Top 6 Saturday: Front Yard Pathways and Walkways Curb Appeal Top 5 Friday: Real People Show Off Fresh and Easy Porch Ideas  Make a Great First Impression: May is CURB APPEAL Month Book Giveaway: No Guff Vegetable Gardening -- If THIS Doesn't Sway You, You're Lost 
 
Oct
05

October is All About Fall Style!

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 10/5/2011 9:30:00 AM
Sure it's cold; but it's pretty! The leaves are turning and so is our style wheel, for we've got plenty of ideas on how to bring the beauty of fall to decorating your home . Think rich, velvety colour palettes, cozy knits, rustic baskets and the bounty
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Aug
28

Outdoor Colour Inspiration: Transitioning from Summer to Fall

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Posted by Guest Blogger 8/28/2011 12:19:00 PM
With only a few weeks left of summer you might be getting tired of the same old colours in your back yard, so why not give your patio an inexpensive punch of colour that will transition you from late summer into early fall? This summer, gorgeous bright
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Aug
11

Grub Season: The Plague of Raccoons Digging Up Your Lawn Explained!

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 8/11/2011 7:36:00 PM
People, the grubs are upon us. Well, our lawns, anyway. Is your lawn being dug up? If so, read on. I recently posted about making over of my yard in which I mentioned the pain of waking up, day after day, to find the fresh sod my husband and I rolled
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Jul
13

Outdoor Design Dilemma: The Right Place for Flower Beds -- See Before & After!

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 7/13/2011 10:09:00 PM
Did you think there was a right place and a wrong place to plant flower beds? I didn't really. I mean, I know what looks about right and what looks weird, but I didn't know the following was basically a rule... Our kindest landscaping know-it-all, Carson
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Jun
30

Real People Living in Condos: Container Gardening

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Posted by Guest Blogger 6/30/2011 2:09:00 PM
Condo living does not traditionally lend itself to certain, much loved summer activities -- Gardening being one of them. But urban density is on the rise and avid gardeners who happen to be condo-bound, are finding creative ways to do their thing on balconies,
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Jun
01

Real Garden Photos: Stephanie's Love at First Sight Yard, North Bay, ON

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Posted by Alicia Cox 6/1/2011 2:36:00 PM
Social media does it again! And by "it" I mean provide us with some fantastic content to share with you, lovely readers. I was perusing Facebook last week when I stumbled upon my old friend Stephanie's beautiful blooming garden . (Stephanie and I first
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Jun
01

It's Backyard Living Month!

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Posted by Vanessa 6/1/2011 10:32:00 AM
Summer is almost here! In some places it feels like the middle of August already. It's time to turn your backyard or balcony into the fifth room you'll spend all summer in. And we are here to help. Our Backyard Living site is already live but it's getting
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May
31

Curb Appeal: My Front Garden Makeover

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Posted by Vanessa 5/31/2011 1:01:00 PM
I am not a gardener or a green thumb. I kill houseplants and before buying a house, the only gardening I did was planting impatiens in my parents' garden — and I was given strict instructions on exactly where to plant them. But for some strange reason,
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May
27

Top 5 Friday: Trends in Gardening and Outdoor Decor

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Posted by Guest Blogger 5/27/2011 2:16:00 PM
Our garden expert Veronica Sliva travels the the world (she's currently in London, UK at the Chelsea Flower Show, then she's off to Italy) discovering new ideas, developments and trends in the world of gardening. This spring she attended some of North
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May
25

Curb Appeal: Tips for Your Lawn

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Posted by Vanessa 5/25/2011 4:08:00 PM
Have you had the lawn mower out yet this year? Do you have enough healthy grass to even bother? Now that keeping our lawns and gardens as gorgeous as the Joneses has become of paramount importance, here are a few tips to get you started. Re-seed bare
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May
24

Curb Appeal: Sarah Richardson's Top 10 Tips

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Posted by Alicia Cox 5/24/2011 1:51:00 PM
Remember Sarah's House 2? That was the year Sarah Richardson transformed a suburban back split in a classic Toronto neighbourhood, inside and out. She added a pool, updated the windows, colour-tinted the exterior and designed the landscaping to restore
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May
21

Curb Appeal Top 6 Saturday: Front Yard Pathways and Walkways

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 5/21/2011 8:20:00 AM
Curb Appeal month continues! Pathways and walkways are on the menu for this Top 6 Saturday , one of the more expensive and labour-intensive investments one can make in a home's curb appeal. I myself have been gearing up to take the plunge, as we have
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May
13

Curb Appeal Top 5 Friday: Real People Show Off Fresh and Easy Porch Ideas

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 5/13/2011 5:55:00 PM
Spring has indeed sprung! I want onto my porch ASAP. I love my porch SOOOOO much that I can get pretty engrossed in porch beauty shots, so I lost count of how many great ideas I've rounded up for you. But great ideas they are, and all by fellow enthusiasts
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May
02

Make a Great First Impression: May is CURB APPEAL Month

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Posted by Vanessa 5/2/2011 11:01:00 AM
All those showers will hopefully bring May flowers (or greenery or whatever your garden preference is) into your life — but don't think you'll reap the rewards of April without a little work. And before you run right to the backyard, take a step off your
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Apr
14

Book Giveaway: No Guff Vegetable Gardening -- If THIS Doesn't Sway You, You're Lost

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 4/14/2011 3:03:00 PM
I see these books and my impulse is to admit defeat: I am hopeless in the garden. But after I sit with the idea, I realize my household is not completely ignorant of backyard vegetable gardening . My husband plants a little patch of arugula and chives
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