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Discover native plant gardening made simple with an Alberta-friendly ‘starter pack’ featuring hardy plants, pollinator benefits, and low-maintenance design tips.
Growing 101
Discover native plant gardening made simple with an Alberta-friendly ‘starter pack’ featuring hardy plants, pollinator benefits, and low-maintenance design tips.
The circle of life works in mysterious ways, but one thing we’ve learned is that each year brings its own “˜pest of the moment’””a bug that suddenly seems to be everywhere! Early identification of these
Best Perennials for Pollinators By Rob Sproule Salvia Monarda (Bee Balm) Thyme Hollyhocks “The hum of bees is the voice of the garden.” – Elizabeth Lawrence We all love bees, but getting them into your
Mason Bees 101 By Rob Sproule The Buzz about the Bee Do They Sting? How Much do They Pollinate? Housing Them “The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But
The “Other” Pollinators By: Rob Sproule Hoverflies Butterflies Other Bees We’ve heard about the honeybees. But what about the other garden superstars giving us apples and strawberries and cucumbers? It’s easy to attract them
Top 3 Gardening Trends For 2016 by Rob Sproule Gardening is self expression. It moves through trends like any creative paradigm, simultaneously a reflection of what’s happening in society and what’s happening inside the
Not All Bees are Scary by Rob Sproule I’m writing this article because it drives me crazy when people ask me how to kill the bees in their yard, assuming that all bees, wasps and
YEG Bees: Backyard Beekeeping in Edmonton by Rob Sproule People often get wistful when I talk to them about bees. Sometimes they’ll tell me, grinning, how they remember their yards palpably buzzing when they
Wasps by Rob Sproule Few bugs are as universally unwelcome as wasps. As usual, however, before I tell you how to get rid of them, I’m going to tell you how fascinating they
What is Killing Our Bees by Rob Sproule It’s impossibly to overstate how extraordinary bees are or how vital they are to our future as a species. Worldwide, about 200,000 species of bees pollinate
Give our Bees a Break by Rob Sproule When I was young the sound of a still, sunny, summer day in the garden was the intoxicating buzz of bees, dancing among the flowers on
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