Commentaries
September 2006 - Pesticides--what are you using these days?
April 2006 - Landscape architects and designers--are they friends or foe of garden centres and nurseries?
December 2005 - Nursery growers and the garden centre community should be supporting an alternate approach to Sudden Oak Death!
September 2005 - Other cities are presently considering outdoor flower and garden shows; Victoria, the City of Gardens, al-ready had one!
August 2005 - Still more competition; and a new top quality liquid fertilizer!
December 2004 - After 60 years in the garden centre business, what is the best blue in herbaceous perennials, Keith Squires?
September 2004 - SOD and the costs to garden centres and nurseries--is it all for naught?
June 2004 - Is this the final demise of White Rose Nurseries?
January 2004 - Who Can Help Royal Botanical Gardens?
November 2003 - Canadian Certified Horticultural Technician
February 2003 - Think About Planting Winter-Interest Plants
October 2002 - I Am Now Using Organic Fertilizers, Are You? A New Line is Coming!
August 2002 - More on the Plant Hardiness Zone Map!
June 2002 - A Really Late Spring, White Rose, and Canada Blooms--Will it Ever be World Class?
May 2002 - What’s All This About Chemical Nitrogen Leaching Into Groundwater From Lawn Fertilizers?
December, 2001 - Roses And Rosarians I Have Known
October 11, 2001 - Taking Plant Hardiness, and What Will Grow Where, One Large Step Into The 21St Century
July 10, 2001 - A New Plant Hardiness Zone Map - and the Controversy Has Only Just Begun!
June 10, 2001 - Are You Too Concerned About The Number Of New Varieties That Don’t Perform Well?
June 2001 - On The Proposed (And Actual) Banning Of Purple Loosestrife!
May 2001 - How to protect against apple maggots without spraying!
April 2001 - Spring is coming, bone meal advocates will be out in full force--but don’t be fooled!
Sept, 2000 - 2,4-D - A Standing Committee Of The House Of Commons Recommends The Banning Of Pesticides Used For Cosmetic Purposes!
April, 2000 - For almost 40 years we’ve been denied the use of the beautiful barberry shrubs!
October, 1999 - Regardless of what the tag says, plant the bump on the stem of rose bushes at least 5 cm below the soil surface!
May, 1999 - What's a gardener to do--there's so much misinformation out there!
April, 1999 - Xeriscape is currently one of the “in” forms of gardening! It ought to be “out!”
March,
1999 - Is it yeah or
nay to pesticides, and natural vs. synthetic.
