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Best winter houseplants: 21 plants to grow indoors in winter

Canada Winter Gardening / By Darla B. Hawkins

Houseplants grace our interiors all year, but the best winter houseplants take on extra importance, adding life, color, and stress-reducing, air-purifying qualities during the colder months of the year. Winter houseplants add color and interest indoors while our gardens sleep and are more resilient at withstanding the sometimes challenging conditions of our homes during the …

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Planning a winter garden: expert planting and design tips

Canada Winter Gardening / By Darla B. Hawkins

Winter isn’t thought of as a colorful time in the garden, but by planning a winter garden you will realize how much this season in fact has to offer. There are still many ways to enjoy your backyard and plan for adding winter interest as part of your winter garden ideas. There is great beauty …

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A decade of growth and transformation at Edmonton’s Lady Flower Gardens

Flower Gardening Canada / By Darla B. Hawkins

What started as a seed of an idea born out of grief has blossomed into a decade of growing and transformation in northeast Edmonton. “I like growing flowers,” says Doug Visser. The local farmer learned from his parents who immigrated from Holland in the 1950s and settled on a piece of land in northeast Edmonton …

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