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Jon's Yard: Better Late Than Never - A Review of the Spring Plant Exchange
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Thoughts and notes about creating a healthy and productive outdoor living space for my family in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies. Too Cold to Garden. Days Until Last Frost. Calgary, Alberta, Canada. View my complete profile. Top100 Garden Sites - not that am am in the top100, but I could be! Layout Suggestions Provided By. Friday, June 08, 2007. Better Late Than Never - A Review of the Spring Plant Exchange. It was held at the city of Calgary offices located at 111 17th st SE Calgary. Creating the ...
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Jon's Yard: March 2007
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Thoughts and notes about creating a healthy and productive outdoor living space for my family in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies. Too Cold to Garden. Days Until Last Frost. Calgary, Alberta, Canada. View my complete profile. Top100 Garden Sites - not that am am in the top100, but I could be! Layout Suggestions Provided By. Thursday, March 15, 2007. The Beginning (Spring 2005). These were some of the early challenges that I was to overcome. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Best Garden Plants for Alberta.
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Balcony Gardener » Pots and Pieces
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What I’m Reading. CONTAINER GARDENING 11 FLOORS UP. They may have to be watered twice a day during a hot summer day. Large containers? Good decision. They will have to be watered less often. Use the standard tricks to reduce the amount of soil required if that’s an issue for you. And have large containers delivered (with soil and other nursery purchases) and put into place. Buy a stone container because it is beautiful, strong, durable, heavy, holds moisture, is available in many styles and can not be da...
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Balcony Gardener » Blog Archive » Bud Bumps
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What I’m Reading. CONTAINER GARDENING 11 FLOORS UP. March 23, 2015 – 10:10 am. The draba are awake and starting to set flower buds. It’s still frosty and occasionally foggy here, so it’s a bit too cool and too early to be mucking about with the troughs yet. But the usual suspects like the draba, saxifrage and clematis are clearly starting to grow. Posted in Plant This. Sign in with Twitter. Sign in with Facebook. Last reply was April 4, 2015. March 25, 2015. April 3, 2015. But without the greenhouse?
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Balcony Gardener » Blog Archive » Balcony Garden – Blooming This Week
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What I’m Reading. CONTAINER GARDENING 11 FLOORS UP. Balcony Garden Blooming This Week. April 4, 2015 – 10:10 am. Still below zero here at night so haven’t moved the troughs out into the sun yet. Maybe next weekend. Cold nights don’t deter flowering, just the gardener. Posted in What's Up. Sign in with Twitter. Sign in with Facebook. Cool Colours at Reader Rock. Community Garden: Beet Greens. I am not a weed! TO Sense of Place. Tools of the Trade. July 29, 2016. July 22, 2016. July 18, 2016. July 15, 2016.
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Balcony Gardener » Blog Archive » Trough Bunnys
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What I’m Reading. CONTAINER GARDENING 11 FLOORS UP. April 5, 2015 – 10:10 am. Posted in What's Up. Sign in with Twitter. Sign in with Facebook. Last reply was July 5, 2015. April 12, 2015. I’ve just discovered your website and am excited to follow your beautiful blog. I’m starting container gardening in Calgary. Are you in Calgary? Because of our unpredictable weather I’m hoping to find a local site. April 16, 2015. Hi Judy. Yes, in Calgary, 11 floors up. Always nice to meet another gardener! July 5, 2015.
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Balcony Gardener » Alpines
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What I’m Reading. If you have these easy-to-grow plants in your troughs, you can expect blooms in late March and early April in Zone 3. Draba mollissima, an evergreen, can take temperatures a few degrees below zero. It’s evergreen and starts to set it’s bright yellow flowers in March in Calgary. Draba mollissima grows slowly and may eventually reach 10 cm high, mine is about half that size. Troughs and Tiny Textures. Alpine plants in hypertufa troughs make up part of my balcony plantings. The selecti...
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Balcony Gardener » What I’m Reading
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What I’m Reading. Pots and Pieces What I’m Reading. Whether you are growing in the ground or in containers, this book will help you step from dreaming straight into the reality of growing grub, no matter how ambitious you choose to be. This one is recommended. MORE FROM THE BALCONY GARDENER LIBRARY. Sky Gardens Rooftops, Balconies and Terraces. This is one of the best reference books on balcony garden design. Simply and clearly written with beautiful photography it showcases the complete scale and sc...
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