Blogs

Herons, egrets and bitterns are long-legged freshwater and coastal birds in the family Ardeidae.

To an entomologist, “true bugs” are insects that suck. No insult intended – they really do suck.

Purple flowering raspberry is a beautiful shrub that has a pretty purple flower with a yellow center.

Next time you stumble across a spider try not to scream or reach for a shoe.

On a Bruce Trail hike I came across a small mound of freshly deposited fox scat.

Silky Dogwood does well on swampy land and branches may bend down and root in wet soil.

Black raspberries have slender prickly branches that are more prominent thorny than red raspberries.

French artist Hubert Duprat capitalized on this in the 1980s by supplying caddisflies with flecks of gold and tiny precious stones.

Who me? With a little planning you can design a garden that deer and rabbits may pass over.

Five ways butterflies survive the winter.

For the best selection buy early and harden off your annuals at home.

Serviceberries produce fragrant white-cream flowers in April/May which attracts bees and butterflies. They’ll bloom more in full sun.