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Take steps to strengthen summertime plants

June 10, 2007 By: Momoy Category: Garden, Plants

Summer officially arrives this month – the lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer that the song recalls. Schools get out, lemonade stands appear and the scent of freshly mowed grass fills the air. In the garden, birds, bees and bugs are already busy, and even weekend gardeners have realized that it’s finally warm enough to [...]

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Winnipeg turfs rogue gardening bylaw

May 21, 2007 By: Momoy Category: Garden

The bold, blood-red tulips clustered on the corner of the boulevard near Greg Winkworth’s historic Winnipeg home were, until recently, illegal.
On a street lined with majestic 100-year-old elm trees, grass has a hard time growing. Tired of seeding the patch of property between the sidewalk and the road, Winkworth ripped out the city’s thick, healthy [...]

April showers (and snow and sun) bring May flowers

May 06, 2007 By: Momoy Category: Flowers

Delicate, fragile and ephemeral are among the adjectives used to describe spring flowers. Nonsense! These plants are among the toughest on earth. Consider: Tuesday, April 17, we had 15 inches of snow. Monday, April 23, it was over 80 degrees. To survive a week like that and then to bloom enthusiastically is not a task [...]

Shady opportunists with delicate grace

May 02, 2007 By: Momoy Category: Garden

Spring-flowering woodlanders are nature’s opportunists. They creep through the bare earth, prompted by lengthening days and warmer temperatures, then flower just before the leafy canopy extends overhead. Many are diminutive and delicately proportioned, but they make a huge impact because they flower while most of the garden is still at rest.
Ideal conditions for growing woodlanders [...]

Many dogwood types can thrive in our area

April 29, 2007 By: Momoy Category: Flowers, Plants

If you’ve driven south through Illinois, Indiana, or Missouri in March, the wonder of spring flowering trees surely has refreshed your winter soul. Especially resplendent is Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida), which abounds in Zone 6, one zone south. It grows here, too, but with neither the vigor nor abundance seen in a warmer clime.
Dogwood trees [...]

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