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Thyme: A Versatile Herb for Your Garden
These small scented and hardy plants are loved by bees, attractive with their covering of lavender flowers, and a fragrant addition both outdoors and indoors.
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Light Up Your Garden With Silvery Foliage Plants
Choose to use silvery foliage plants to light up your garden beds and add dimension and interest to containers and planters.
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How to Make Gardening Easier: My 9 Top Tips
Discover nine simple ways to make gardening easier, saving you work as you grow healthier plants, increase harvests and beautify your yard.
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Ornamental Grasses: A Unique Landscaping Choice
Diverse, beautiful and easy to care for, ornamental grasses have gained popularity with landscapers and gardeners over the past decade. If you're looking for a unique ornamental to fit your landscape plans, this is the ultimate source for you.
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Ornamental Alliums: Unique Flowers for the Perennial Border
Alliums are interesting, unique flowering perennials that come in many beautiful colors and sizes. These ornamental plants give zing to your borders and gardens.
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How to Add Texture to Your Watercolour Paintings
Make your watercolours more interesting by adding texture with these simple tips and techniques.
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How to Replace Cracked or Broken Floor Tiles
Tile floors can be beautiful, care-free and long lasting. But replacing a cracked tile must be done carefully. Here's how.
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Butternut Squash: The Perfect Ingredient for Delicious Winter Soups
Enjoy summer's golden colour in winter with delicious and nutritious soups created from butternut and other winter squashes.
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Troublesome Garden Ornamentals- Tough or Invasive?
Some garden ornamentals are just plain troublesome and invasive. Here's a selection of some of the tough plants you may want to reconsider before adding them to your flower beds and gardens.
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4 Easy Quinoa Breakfast Recipes You Will Love
Four delicious quinoa recipes for breakfast, so you can start your day with nutritional power!
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The Best Salmon Fillets
Lucky me to live on the west coast of Canada, where I have access to fresh wild salmon! For this recipe, you'll want to choose fillets of wild sockeye. The thing to remember here is often seen on local bumper stickers: "Wild Salmon Don't Do...
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9 Herbs for Your Perennial Herb Garden
An illustrated guide to growing nine favorite perennial herbs. These common essential culinary herbs will grow year after year, giving you a fresh supply of herbs for your kitchen.
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Peonies in Art and Life
Peonies are featured in many art forms, from ancient Chinese paintings and lacquer ware to very modern and colourful body art.
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Plant Peonies for Beauty
Plant long-living peonies for beautiful blooms and attractive foliage. From snowy white to deep purples, these large scented blossoms add color and texture to gardens.
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Brassicas for Health
Brassicas, more commonly referred to as the cabbage family are one of your best nutrition buys. They are high in dietary fiber, low in calories, tasty, and contain essential vitamins C, K
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Beautiful Nutritious Kale
Are you looking for a plant that has multiple faces - nutritionally rich, easy to grow, and beautiful enough to use as an ornamental? Then some of the varieties of Kale may be just what your garden needs. Kale is one of the oldest cultivated...
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A Guide to Companion Planting
Many plants grow better near some other plants. Find out how to use companion planting to keep damaging insects at bay, to promote better growth, and to enhance their harvest.
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Golden, British Columbia: Year-Round Adventure
Golden, BC, in the Columbia River Valley of British Columbia, offers skiing, golf, canoeing, parasailing from the top of a mountain, river-rafting... and much more.
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Companion Planting: Will It Benefit Your Garden?
Companion planting is an easy way to naturally improve plant growth, increase harvest yield, and prevent pest infestations. Find out which plant pairings work well and which to avoid before you plant your garden.
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Window Boxes: Adding Beauty to Homes
Add window box plants to your home for beautiful impact and charm. Learn about which plants work well, different types of window boxes, and even planting tips.
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The Types of Climbers & Vines That Will Enhance Your Garden
Climbers and vines like clematis and ivy add interest to your garden design. Here's how climbers grow, what structures support them, and precautions to take when planting.
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Six Herbs for a Shady Corner
Every yard has a semi-shady corner - somewhere the sun penetrates only for a small part of the day. Here are six shade-tolerant herbs to light up that corner and liven up your meals.
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Romantic Wisteria
With its long pannicles of soft blossoms varying in colour from white to pink to lavender, wisteria adds a romantic touch to arbours, pergolas and fences.
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How to Grow Hot Peppers
Grow your own hot peppers and add piquancy and heat to your cooking. Learn about different varieties, the Scoville scale, and tips for growing your own peppers.
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Easy to Grow: Daylilies for Every Garden
Drought resistant, long lived, hardy and easy to care for, daylilies may be just what you're looking for in your perennial beds and gardens.
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How to Dry Leafy Herbs for Optimal Flavour
Freshly dried herbs from your garden are so much more flavourful than the packaged ones from the grocery store. Here are tips to successful drying of your home grown leafy herbs.
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Five Invasive Plants You Should Never Grow
Discover five invasive and non-native plants that have disrupted the natural habitats of both flora and fauna in North America and cause ongoing problems in eradicating them.
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Layering for New Plants
Learn how to propagate shrubs by layering. Layering is a technique that can be used with shrubs, herbs, and groundcovers to start new plants.
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Cold Weather Gardening
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Four Invasive Flowering Plants
Gardeners beware - these four beautiful flowering plants can invade and take over your garden! Be cautious and aware before you invite them in.
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10 Perennial Groundcover Plants for Sun or Shade
Discover ten very different perennial ground covers, some for shade and others for sunny locations. Through this guide, learn all you need to know about these perennial groundcovers.
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Savvy Packing Tips for Travel
How to avoid excess baggage charges, struggles with heavy bags and be the first out the door at the airport.
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Fragrance Gardens
What could be more wonderful than strolling through a flower garden full of scent and fragrance and in bloom all season from spring through fall? Everyone, gardener or just visitor, loves a fragrant flower, whether it's spicy, musky or sweetly...
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How to Create a Welcoming Shade Garden
Designing and planting a shade garden creates a cool summer oasis in your yard. Make an attractive shade garden with ground covers, shrubs, ornamentals or edibles.
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Heat Up Your Garden With Reds
Want to add zing and boldness to your garden beds? Add plants with hot colors – dynamic, vibrant reds, bright oranges and sunny yellows.
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Gardening With Rocks
Using rock adds textures, colours and definition to any landscape design when you work with what nature has provided.
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Hiking the West Coast Trail
The West Coast Trail runs across cliff tops, through rain forest, and along beaches, through 50 miles of the most spectacular and challenging terrain of Vancouver Island's west coast. Now part of the Pacific Rim National Park, it is one of the most...
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Wear Your Baby
Baby wearing is one of the oldest traditions in cultures around the world. It's essential for a baby's best development to have strong physical contact with his caregivers, and equally essential for the parents, to create a close bond. By wearing...
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Ecuador Artists
Ecuador art can be unique, charming, diverse, and historical at the same time. Musicians, painters, weavers, potters, silversmiths, knitters and carvers share their work.
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Must-Try Ecuador Favorite Foods
Ecuador is known for its many exotic fruits, top quality seafood and fish, and countless varieties of potatoes. You can find familiar fast food chains in the larger cities, but why would you want to, when such an array of fresh, good food is available?
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Planning and Planting Your Vegetable Garden
The real fun of gardening is in the planning and planting. Gardening seed catalogs start appearing in the mailbox in January, and by month end they are totally thumbed and marked up. You've checked the online sources for heritage varieties,...
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How to Use Your Fresh Culinary Herbs
Grow your own fresh culinary herbs and add zest, flavour and even essential minerals and vitamins to your cooking. Recipes included!
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Quinoa: the Andean Superfood
Discover the history of quinoa, the Andean superfood, and why you should include this super-nutritious food in your diet.
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Whole Grains for a Healthy Diet
Include whole grains in your diet as a source of complex carbohydrates, plant proteins and minerals. Discover a wide variety of grains and seeds that you can add to your diet.
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Hobbies for Women: Create a More Joyous Life
Refresh and renew your life and spirits, fulfill your creative self and improve your well-being with a hobby. Discover your hidden talents and build on them to find an outlet of creativity.
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Are Your Children Technical Zombies?
How many zombies do see walking around, wires hanging from their ears, transfixed by tiny screens, typing messages to people who are sitting no more that 10 feet away.
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Carnivorous Plants: Why Do They Exist?
Have you even wondered why carnivorous plants evolved? These unique and fascinating plants are found all over the world. Their diets range from a tiny fly to something as large as a mouse, and all of them have evolved to need prey for similar reasons.
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Seven Essential Kitchen Garden Herbs
Grow these seven easy-to-grow culinary herbs and add flavour, aroma and healthy minerals to your cooking and beauty to your garden.
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Make a New Garden Bed With Sheet Mulching
Sheet mulching is a fast, easy way to build a new raised planting bed without the hassle of digging and removing sod.
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Nine Herbs for Your Tea Garden
Plant a tea garden of herbs and flowers to create an endless variety of refreshing herbal teas, all homegrown, organic, and freshly picked.
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Plant Propagation with Softwood Cuttings
Softwood plant propagation is just as easy as taking hardwood cuttings and many ornamental perennials are increased this way.
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Plant Propagation from Cuttings
Plant propagation is fun and easy. One of the easiest ways to propagate certain types of plants is by taking and rooting cuttings. Plant cuttings are parts of a parent plant that are severed and then placed in a rooting medium, such as peat moss,...
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Good Fat, Bad Fat
Fat, fat, fat - over 50% of Americans have too much of it! Obesity rates are growing in leaps and bounds! (Maybe more of us should do some personal leaping and bounding.) What's happened to our population? Why can't we control our weight? Do we...
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How to Set up Your Watercolor Workspace for Carefree Painting
Minimize the possibility for disastrous accidents by following these simple guidelines for an efficient and carefree painting experience.
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Master the Art of Suitcase Importing
You can pay for your trip to South America with a little know-how and a couple of large suitcases. Read on to find out how to master the art of suitcase importing.
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Change...Your Habits
Habits - we all have them. We learn them from our parents, our teachers, our peers, our own quirks. Sometimes, it pays to change them - but first we need to recognize them.
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Advantages of Raised Bed Gardening
Problems with poor soil, rampant weeds, or your aching back? Raised bed gardens may be just the answer you're looking for.