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In the Garden: Perfect place for white wood aster (opens the original)
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David Hobson is a Waterloo-based writer and a freelance contributor for the Record. Email garden@gto.net. Planting the right plant in the right place is wise advice, and I try to follow it. But sometimes I donât, which is why I move plants around. Itâs usually because the plant grew poorly, outgrew a designated place, or when my imagined image of a perfect juxtaposition of colour and form failed to materialize. Sometimes itâs because the conditions didnât contribute to healthy growth. I
It's time to unfriend Lily and Jenny (opens the original)
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David Hobson is a Waterloo-based writer and a freelance contributor for the Record. Email:Â garden@gto.net. Many non-native plants that have escaped gardens have become invasive species in the greater environment. These plants travel by way of seeds carried by wildlife or from the aimless disposal of garden waste near natural areas. There is a list of plants that fall under the Ontario Invasive Species Act, which also includes fish and other wildlife. For instance, phragmites is taking over wetl
Joe Pye is flowering plant that attracts pollinators (opens the original)
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David Hobson is a Waterloo-based writer and a freelance contributor for the Record. Email:Â garden@gto.net. Two people three centuries apart are connected to a plant Iâm growing. The first person is Joe Pye, and gardeners and botanists will know him from Joe Pye weed, one of our popular native plants. Joe was Joseph Shauquethqueat, a Mohican tribal leader in New England. I suspect his name was a challenge to colonists in the 18th century so he was simply known as Joe Pye. His connection to the
Royal Botanical Gardens bursts with colorful art for a summer escape (opens the original)
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David Hobson is a Waterloo-based writer and a freelance contributor for the Record. Email:Â garden@gto.net. Want summer fun for the whole family? Kids visit for free until Sept. 7Â and they will love it, gardeners will love it, and so will art lovers. And itâs all in one place and thereâll be butterflies too. Yes, itâs the Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington and itâs not far, only about an hourâs drive from Waterloo. The RBG is the largest botanical garden in Canada and a National Hi
In the Garden: Beauty and the beast (opens the original)
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David Hobson is a Waterloo-based writer and a freelance contributor for the Record. Email:Â garden@gto.net. At first, I thought it was the wind that dispatched my poor phacelia. But on close examination, I realized the death could have been at the hands or, rather, the many feet of wood lice, also known as roly-polies, sow bugs, pill bugs, or any other of the many names theyâre given. They show up in damp places, often hiding under rocks and in crevices, and they like to hang out around compos
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