Leisure

Drying flowers and herbs – Herbs can be crushed and stored, flowers can be left hanging as decoration or used to make dried arrangements.

Honeysuckle is very adaptable to adverse growing conditions and provides great fall colour.

Get off the treadmill and join the Zumba craze!

A Canadiana speed test, Mr Collison’s on-time exercise and win the apples in the bin.

The common elder is very adaptable, survives with minimal care but tends to sucker. Good naturalization or roadside plant. Deer resistant.

The general rule is there is no rule, remember they are all perennials and will grow back again next year.

“It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter”
– Alfred Eisenstaedt

Red raspberry attracts birds, butterflies, bees and other showy insects. Fruit is often used in pies or preserves or simply eaten raw.

The benefit of growing fruit bushes (raspberries, blueberries, strawberries etc) as opposed to fruit trees (apple, pear, plum etc) is that they will start to produce fruit soon after planting – in many cases, the same year.

The best way to control this nasty pest is to continually scout for the adults, larvae and eggs. Wipe the eggs off with a soapy cloth and drop adults and larvae into a bowl of soapy water.

The Gray Dogwood is very adaptable. Can withstand many kinds of soil and looks good all year round.

“Writing about a writer’s block is better than not writing at all”
— Charles Bukowski, The Last Night of the Earth Poems