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The most exciting new perennials for this gardening season

The most exciting new perennials for this gardening season | The Star

My surprising, and ongoing, love affair with amaryllis: Real Dirt

Picotee amaryllis offer pristine white petals, outlined with pink.

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Gardeners plant seeds, then reap the benefits of generosity

Marilyn Theurer of Arthur (red hat) preparing to plant tulips.

a garden filled with lots of purple and white flowers

Making biodiversity work on a small scale: Real Dirt

Massed coneflowers are part of a display at the Toronto Botanical Garden, the site of an upcoming symposium on biodiversity.

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Cavolo Nero kale is tough and coarse, but works when cooked with pasta

Sonia Day prefers growing the curly kale.

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Sponsored | Tending to your perennial garden

A monthly gardening checklist to keep your perennials looking lush and beautiful all season long

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Here are a few ideas on how to create your own garden tour of Toronto (and one in Buffalo)

a person digging in the ground with a shovel and some vegetables growing on it,

Why gardening should be deemed a sport

If sport is defined as all forms of physical exercise, then gardening is a sport, writes Mark Cullen.

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a row of potted plants sitting on top of a wooden shelf next to a fence

Fake grass and the Handy Camel bag clip: gardening’s best and worst of 2015

A row of Coleus on display during Buffalo's Garden Walk.

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Hardy Ardisia is the hot Christmas plant: Real Dirt

Ardisia plants, stowed on the ceiling of greenhouse, aren't "annoying like holly," horticulturist Robert Bierhuizensays.

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How growing giant pumpkins is really about growing communities: Real Dirt

Giant pumpins are too misshapen and ugly to carve for Halloween, and too fibrous for pie or soup — but they're good for one thing.

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Ryerson University's rooftop farm celebrates bumper harvest

Garden coordinator Spencer Quinn readies a soil bed for planting garlic bulbs at Ryerson's roof top garden at the George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre.

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A spinach feeding frenzy erupts in the school's garden

Entire spinach plants were ripped out by the roots at the food garden.

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Weeds, whacking back and bugs: why I can’t wait for winter

Sonia Day and Ollie get ready to haul another pile of weeds away.