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While Britain’s Queen Elizabeth was celebrating her 96th birthday and 75 years on the throne yesterday, Barbadian Audrey Thomas was celebrating her 100th birthday at her Golf Club, Christ Church home, surrounded by an intimate gathering of family. The well known horticulturalist, who was president of the Barbados Horticultural Society from 1981 to 1983 and one of the people in the vanguard of inspiring Barbadians to get more involved in …

My plan is to remove the grass and grow more vegetables for myself and flowers for the bees.

Ella Risbridger's new cookbook blends grief, joy, love and loss into its pages – the author talks us through The Year of Miracles

Sunflowers for Ukraine is encouraging Canadians to plant Sunflowers for Ukraine gardens to demonstrate support and raise funds for the people of Ukraine in their time of need.

Q: We have three in-ground columnar crab apple trees in our backyard that are at least 10 years old and have grown quite tall. Is there a way to prune these so…

The Canadian Garden Council (CGC) is proud to proclaim 2022 as Canada’s Year of the Garden . From Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2022, the Year of the Garden will…

Q We like to put up our real Christmas tree early so we can enjoy it. Last year we put the tree up in the first week of December and it was losing a lot of…

Q I have a small lawn with relatively poor soil that’s high in clay. Would spreading my used potting mix on the lawn be beneficial?

Q We have a small garden but not enough room to grow some flowering bulbs. I love tulips and would really like to be able to grow them. Can you grow tulips in…

Work well and wait; Impatience spoils the Sowing; Don’t dig up Seeds to see if they are Growing. ~Arthur Guiterman, “Of Farming,”  A Poet’s Proverbs , 1924