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Aug
29

How to Garden Wrap-Up and Gallery: England's Beautiful Gardens

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 8/29/2010 9:20:00 AM
Why is summer like chocolate? So lovely and indulgent while it lasts, but always seems to melt away too soon? (I shouldn't get started on chocolate actually...) I'm going on like this because whether I like it on, the calendar says summer is packing its
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Aug
07

How to Garden: It's Hot Now, But Can Tropical Plants Endure the Rest of Our Climate?

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Posted by Guest Blogger 8/7/2010 12:10:00 AM
By: Veronica Sliva It’s Hot, Hot, Hot. Yes indeed. Positively tropical. Which reminds of my recent trip to England this past June. While there I visited Will Giles’s Exotic Garden in Norwich . As soon as I stepped into the garden I was transported to
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Jul
30

How To Garden: How Grows It?

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Posted by Guest Blogger 7/30/2010 2:53:00 PM
By: Veronica Sliva How is your garden growing? It’s mid-summer and by now you know if things are going well in your garden or not. What seemed like a good idea in late April may be a disaster by late July. Even though there’s lots of growing time left
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Jul
30

Top 5 Friday: Outdoor Dining Accessories

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Posted by Alicia Cox 7/30/2010 11:30:00 AM
Can you hear it? It's the collective anticipation of millions of Canadians waiting, pining and craving for the long weekend! While I'm about to explode into tiny bits of happiness, I have a job to do, Style Sheet readers, before I go. Today, that job
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Jul
23

How to Garden: Get Inspired with Garden Tourism

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Posted by Guest Blogger 7/23/2010 5:21:00 PM
By: Veronica Sliva When I need to take a break from gardening (and who doesn’t from time to time?), I like to snoop into the gardens of others: garden tours . Thanks to garden tours, there is no shortage of great ideas to incorporate into my own humble
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Jul
16

How to Garden: Vermiculture -- Composting With Worms

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Posted by Guest Blogger 7/16/2010 9:32:00 AM
By: Veronica Sliva Keeping worms in the closet? It’s called vermiculture , or vermicomposting , and I got into it a couple of years ago when I was researching a story on a method of using worms to recycle organic waste into a soil conditioner. I decided
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Jul
12

Question of the Week: Manual Push vs Powered Lawn Mowers -- Does Convenience Trump Green?

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 7/12/2010 10:05:00 AM
Grass lawns aren't great for the environment (I bow my head in shame having recently re-sodded my lawn.) Opposing studies have played tug of war with lawn facts, with disheartening emissions studies finally neutering the argument that a grass lawn makes
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Jul
09

How to Garden: Strawberry Time

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Posted by Guest Blogger 7/9/2010 1:42:00 PM
By: Veronica Sliva Other than being an expert on eating them and doing the “pick your own” thing in my stay-at-home Mom days, my only experience with strawberries has been growing an ornamental variety called ‘Pink Panda’ (Fragaria x ananassa). Not intended
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Jul
02

How to Garden: Haven't You Always Wanted a Water Feature?

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Posted by Guest Blogger 7/2/2010 2:44:00 PM
By: Veronica Sliva I’m really ticked at the marauding raccoon that is trying to help himself to the fish in my pond. Which got me thinking…even though raccoons are a pain, no outdoor space should be without a bit of water -- it’s worth the aggravation.
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Jun
25

How to Garden: Rose Fright

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Posted by Guest Blogger 6/25/2010 10:12:00 PM
By: Veronica Sliva I admit it. I've always avoided growing roses , feeling that they were too much trouble for my style of gardening (lazy.) On the odd occasion when I caved into temptation and planted a rose, I usually got so fed up with the blackspot
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Jun
23

Outdoor Dilemma: Carson Arthur on "Trenching" to Help Trees Recover from Construction

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Posted by Guest Blogger 6/23/2010 8:37:00 PM
I love a summer cameo from my favourite landscaping guru, Carson Arthur of Green Force . Though Glen Peloso is still our guy for Design Dilemmas , Carson has graciously answered an Outdoor Dilemma for one Theresa M., who sent in a question about her new,
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Jun
18

How to Garden: Tool Talk

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 6/18/2010 12:48:00 PM
By: Veronica Sliva I’m a garden tool junkie. I probably have one of everything that was ever manufactured. But the truth is, I keep going back to the same ones over and over again. I like tools that are comfortable and easy to use…and difficult for me
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Jun
13

A Garden Beautification from One of Our Readers!

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 6/13/2010 9:00:00 AM
Lookie here! Look at what I found in my inbox: DIY garden photos from one of you, our dear, cherished readers! There is nothing -- I really mean nothing -- we here at HGTV.ca like better than receiving photos boasting of your latest craft, decor project
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Jun
11

How to Garden: Tomato Dilemmas

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Posted by Guest Blogger 6/11/2010 4:14:00 PM
By: Veronica Sliva Last week, against my better judgment I planted my tomatoes . Tomatoes don’t like cold soil no matter how warm the air is. My rule is if you can’t plunk your derriere down on the soil and sit awhile without too much of a chill, then
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Jun
10

DIY Built-In Bookshelves

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Posted by Catherine Jheon 6/10/2010 4:07:00 PM
My husband is a British, jazz-playing academic (translation: not handy, not even a little bit). So imagine my surprise – shock really-- when he announced he was going to build shelves for our living room. I quickly ran through a gamut of emotions. At
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