TREE CARE: Those tree-chompers may not be cankerworms

Users of Tanglefoot tree bands are understandably perplexed when they still get heavy feeding by cankerworms. One explanation may be that they don't have cankerworms at all. Elm spanworms cause similar feeding damage to cankerworms and are not prevented from getting . . .

Posted: 2010-06-19

A contemporary side-by-side

Refreshing one-of-a-kind home is spacious and bright

It’s a sight you don’t often see in Crescentwood. Yet, there it is, tucked away on Hector Avenue, just west of Stafford Street: a contemporary-looking side-by-side. This is no ordinary infill home, says Ed Dale Jr. of RE/MAX Professionals. "The home was . . .

Posted: 2017-03-25

Luxury without the high cost of living it

Cherrywood Road home offers the good life at a great price

With its linear silhouette and brick-clad exterior, 316 Cherrywood Rd. looks every bit the part of a luxury home. However, while it’s indisputably luxurious from the ground up, its price tag isn’t, says Vladimir Mostkov of Sutton Group-Kilkenny Real Estate, the . . .

Posted: 2019-06-15

This prize is a winner

HSC Lottery top prize a well-thought-out gem

If you thought the grand prize show home for the Health Sciences Centre Foundation 2009 Home Lottery was the result of mere happenstance, think again. In fact, the planning process for the 3, 554-square-foot, two-storey show home (with 1, 000-sq.-ft. lower . . .

Posted: 2009-04-16

Designer digs

Bridgwater Trails two-storey a massive masterpiece

It goes without saying that conceiving the plan of a brand new home design is a painstaking process. In the case of 440 Cherrywood Rd. — Signature Homes’ newest show home in Bridgwater Trails — the mission of the company’s design . . .

Posted: 2021-02-20

Proud and Free

Celebrating Canada Day in the heart of Winnipeg

[SPONSORED CONTENT]   This weekend, as you celebrate Canada's birthday, may you think fondly about the freedoms you especially enjoy. May you hop on a bike or train, in a car or a canoe and explore all things maple-infused, all things beautiful. Canada . . .

Posted: 2019-06-28

Trees to enhance your yard's beauty

Nursery owner back to business after brush with death

Sheldon Falk is planning and planting for the future because he can. After a brush with death last fall, this May long weekend has special significance. Falk is the owner of Falk Nurseries, a family-run nursery and garden centre located eight . . .

Posted: 2019-05-18

Stylish hooks will ease your hang ups

Space at a premium during cold weather

Closets are wonderful for stashing bulky jackets and snow boots out of sight, but with all the necessary bits and pieces of clothing that cold weather demands, closet space is usually at a premium. It's always a good idea to . . .

Posted: 2008-11-16

Fan gets a fan

With his company's various cyclonic gizmos -- track-ball vacuum cleaners and wall-mounted hand dryers and the like -- industrial designer and inventor James Dyson has emerged as the people's aerodynamicist, a tamer of vortexes and laminar flow, the Edison of . . .

Posted: 2010-03-13

Total package

South St. Vital condo development delivers function, value and style

Designing a condominium community is no simple task. Which is to say, when you’re designing such a community, you need to think in a broad yet detailed way.Irwin Homes, the designers of the Woods at Creek Bend, have produced a . . .

Posted: 2016-08-06