GARDENING: Made in the dry and shade

Plant choices for those covered areas

In Winnipeg, we're fortunate to have so many older neighbourhoods with large trees. Those towering elms, pines, and spruces are certainly beautiful, and when summer heats up, they provide cooling shade to homes and yards. But it's not always easy . . .

Posted: 2012-03-17

Colour tiptoes into the kitchen

Hues used to liven up simplistic, clean white space

The all-white kitchen is not going away anytime soon. But change is afoot: colour is tiptoeing back into the kitchen. A growing number of consumers are looking to add some friendliness and warmth to the often cold, clinical white-and-grey cooking spaces . . .

Posted: 2018-05-05

Designing with meadow rues

Liven up your garden with clouds of dainty colour

Meadow rues give a spectacular show in different areas of the herbaceous border. There are numerous options that will liven up your garden with a profusion of colour in late spring, mid-summer, or as late as mid-September. By this time . . .

Posted: 2020-08-15

Make a splash

Grasses add colour, texture to your garden palette

This season, daring to be different with ornamental grass varieties has never been easier. Among the most versatile of plants, grasses are perfect partners for perennials and annuals in both beds and containers.The human eye can see more shades of . . .

Posted: 2015-05-23

Garden mosaic perfectly framed with stone, wood and concrete

When Alan and Roma Thorlakson purchased their West St. Paul home eight years ago, their landscape overlooking the Red River was a blank slate of gumbo covered with only a thin layer of black soil. From the two-tiered deck of . . .

Posted: 2016-02-13

GARDENING: O Christmas Tree

Tree farms offer everything from U-cut to home delivery

Sometimes the reason for buying a live tree for the holidays is the same as for purchasing an artificial tree. In a word, aroma. The delicious scent of a fresh tree, while intoxicating to some, can bother allergy sufferers. Mold spores . . .

Posted: 2013-12-14

Move-in ready homes for wildlife visitors

Promote biodiversity and encourage natural predators to control garden pests

While we wait for warmer weather and the chance to begin tending our gardens, birds and other small creatures are already hard at work searching for food and the most flower-rich habitats that will provide a rich source of nectar . . .

Posted: 2021-04-24

It takes a village

Residents and volunteers are a driving force behind the beautification of south Winnipeg park

While many of us are busy putting our home gardens to bed, Debbie and Stuart Innes, along with neighbours and master gardener volunteers, are completing a range of tasks to prepare the many new shrubs, trees, and perennials for . . .

Posted: 2022-10-08

Striking powers of observation

Renowned photographer Dennis Fast captures beauty in our own backyard

Dennis Fast is an internationally recognized wildlife and nature photographer. His compelling photographs of landscapes and wildlife species from many different places around the world show a unique recognition of and appreciation for all of nature. Fast’s work has been . . .

Posted: 2022-10-29

Save the trees, please

Losing your ash tree? Consider these replacements

According to Martha Barwinsky, city forester in Winnipeg, most of our urban forest is actually on private property. This is a startling statement, especially if you were planning to leave it up to the City of Winnipeg to entirely solve the . . .

Posted: 2018-09-22