Gardening with Candy Venning
7 Fall Garden Thingies and Fun (not tasks or chores!)
Candy Venning 1) Remove Anything going to seed or at least their seedheads - that you don't want more of - this includes intentional plants like Cosmos & Borage or accidentally-forgot-to-remove-invasive-weeds like Dandelions or Burdock. Seeds can remain dormant...
Wonder and Awesome Gardens
Submitted by Candy Venning How it looks; you standing in your garden or a park staring at the sky. How it feels: a small bird you’ve wanted to see for ages, just swooped past. Mid-sentence you track the flight and are swept up in their journey along the treetops....
Joyful Steward vs Hard Labouring Gardener
by Candy Venning Stark, highly controlled gardens, as ideals of perfect dominance over nature, leave me cold. Show me a wild and woolly, happy place, a lush backyard oasis with caterpillars and butterflies, singing birds and buzzin bumblebees to elicit gushy praise....
Pet Garden Peeves 3.0
by Candy Venning 1) Invasive plant species – Although vigorous online debates rage in garden groups with people who truly love their Burning Bush, Barberry or Lily of the valley, these plants escape our gardens and grow across woodlands, ravines, places that are not...
Fav Sunny Plants
by Candy Venning Last month I shared a list of favourite shade plants and now it’s sunny gardens’ turn. Though many of these plants are large or a bit wild and woolly, adding a low stone wall, a background hedge, structures like obelisks or arbours all create a more...
Shade Garden
by Candy Venning I recently gave a ‘Shade Garden’ talk via Zoom to a garden club. As a part of the talk I agreed to provide a list of some of my favourite plants – primarily native. I thought it might be helpful if you’re working on establishing a woodland garden. The...
Indoor Plant Tips
Submitted by Candy Venning As we continue to collect daylight minutes and hoard seeds, I thought now might be a good time to share a few houseplants tips. Despite never buying a plant, I have somehow collected Aloes, Oranges, Agapanthus, ferns, spider plants and...
Who are you planning your garden for?
By Candy Venning Maybe a bit of a personal question, but just who is your garden for? At this time of year, I really start to dream and plan ahead with my ‘garden goals’. A place for myself in the hammock is high on the list, but I also have other guests on my mind –...
The Gardeners Holiday List
by Candy Venning Hmmmm…. What to get that gardener on your list – or perhaps ‘wanna gardener’ or maybe just thinking about becoming a gardener while collecting houseplants kinda’ gardener? A family Membership to the Royal Botanical Gardens – supporting beautiful...
SIX WAYS FOR YOU, FOR EVERYONE, TO LOVE YOUR GARDEN HARDER
By Candy Venning 1) First let’s talk about the 3 B’s – and creating habitats for them Birds; planting species in your garden that support our feathered friends not only in the seeds a plant provides but also for spring foraging on insects and larvae (they need to feed...