Kentucky Coffee-tree
Finding a Kentucky coffee-tree (Gymnocladus dioica) growing in the wild in Ontario is rare. Its deceasing presence led […]
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Keep Paths Cool
Ways To Keep Your Yard Cool Paved and hard surfaces like driveways can absorb and radiate the sun’s
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Plants Keep You Cool
We’ve already experienced a few 30 degree days this year and we’ll likely see more because of climate
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Barren Strawberry
Small yellow flowers bloom on this low-growing groundcover in mid-late spring. As it grows, it forms a dense
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How to Remove Goutweed
It’s Not Easy But Don’t Give Up Removing goutweed and other invasive groundcovers, like periwinkle, English ivy or
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Problem Plants
There are some plants that you wish you didn’t invite into your yard. These are invasive species—non-native plants
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Invasive Goutweed
Goutweed (Aegopodium podagraria), also known as bishop’s weed or snow on the mountain, is a perennial groundcover native
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Growing Ground Covers
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Common silverweed grows less than 20 centimetres tall and can tolerate light foot traffic.
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Wild Strawberry
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Wild strawberry offers pollinators early season nectar and pollen.
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CVC’s New Rain-ready Plant List
Have you ever wanted to create a rain garden, build a soakaway or plant a soggy area of your yard? You
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Swamp Milkweed
The vibrant pink blooms of swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata) will stand out in any rain garden. This great pollinator
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Rain-ready Landscaping: When to DIY or Hire a Pro
You’ve decided a rain-ready landscape is the right fit for your yard. The next decision is whether to
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Life Underground
When planning and planting our gardens, we often focus on what we see above ground, like birds nesting
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American Hop-hornbeam
Looking for a small to medium-sized tree for your yard? American hop-hornbeam (Ostrya virginiana) is a great choice
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How to Top-dress with Compost
The best (and easiest) way to improve the soil in your garden is to top-dress with compost. Top-dressing
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Why Leaves Change Colour When They Shouldn’t (and How to Stop Them)
If the leaves on your trees and shrubs are changing unseasonably early, it could be a sign something’s wrong.
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Why Leaves Change Colour
The switch from summer to fall can be bittersweet. But two things that help ease the transition are
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Freeman Maple
Hardy and fast-growing, Freeman maple is a great shade tree suited to medium and large urban yards. Small
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Backyard Ecosystem Restoration
Properly caring for your yard contributes to the health of our local and global ecosystems. Join Generation Restoration by healing
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What Will You Restore?
What will you restore? On June 5, the United Nations declared the next ten years the Decade on
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