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Wolf Schmitz is an experienced stonemason who has been building beautiful garden walls for more than 20 years. It's an art form that gives gardens a permanent structure, architecture, charm and character. But it doesn't happen overnight — each stone has to be picked piece-by-piece. Vancouver's annual festival starts March 30, but there could be a shortage of blooms as the cold weather has keep buds from breaking.

Still, the show must go on. About half a dozen top-notch garden shows are held around the world every year. Seattle has a good one. Singapore has a great festival. Melbourne has an international flower and garden show. Boston and Toronto both have big spring events. But the biggest and the best shows continue to be the Philadelphia Flower Show, the largest […]. You might think that gardens are romantic by their very nature.

But some gardens are certainly more romantic than others. Here's a look at some of the world's most romantic gardens and what we can learn from them and the plant in them to make our own gardens more a place for romance. In response, traditional garden centres are focusing more on customer service, plant quality and diversity. Place Stadium. The gardening component at the show continues to entertain and inspire, especially The Vancouver Sun Gardener's School, now in its 15 year. Next week is a big one for gardeners in B.

Both shows run from Feb. It is worth thinking about what you like most about a garden. Once you have identified your favourite garden things, you can get working on creating the garden of your dreams. This website uses cookies to personalize your content including ads , and allows us to analyze our traffic.

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This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. May days: This month's gardening guide Here are some quick tips to what you can do in your garden this month. May 2, Gardening. In the Garden: Farewell to a career taken down the garden path Steve Whysall is leaving the Vancouver Sun after 38 years, 26 of which has been spent writing garden stories. Falling in love with my electric blue rhodo all over again stevewhysall - April 30, 0.

There are hundreds of varieties of rhododendron. But I always fall in love every spring with the one in my front garden, Rhododendron augustinii.

It is a mesmerizing, electric blue and looks amazing set against Time to fall in love with rhododendrons stevewhysall - April 30, 0. Since it Why planting bulbs with kids is always so rewarding stevewhysall - October 6, 1. I've always enjoyed planting bulbs with my kids. Now I enjoy bulb planting with my grandkids. And Jake, 8, is always very enthusiastic. There is so much we can learn by planting spring flowering bulbs Why October makes me think of the beauty of spring stevewhysall - October 2, 0.

When October comes around, I can't help thinking about spring. Yes, fall is fabulous with its magnificent colour changes and calm days, blue skies and mild temperatures. But October is the perfect time to plant Words for a little boy from a dragonfly master stevewhysall - September 30, 1. I was chatting wth my grandson, Jake, 8, the other day about dragonflies.

I said I had never had a dragonfly land on me, not once in I've always been partial to clipped boxwood. I'm English, but that is not the reason. You will find beautiful trimmed boxwood in many Dutch, French and Belgian gardens as well as Stories, photos of our 28 tours stevewhysall - May 3, 0. We have the joy of spring. If things were normal and we were not in the middle of this awful pandemic, I would be getting ready right now to go to Europe for a divine river cruise on the Danube, In memory of my friend Umberto Garbuio stevewhysall - March 17, 6.

He was Born in the Veneto region of Never tire of doing this fun project with paperwhites stevewhysall - November 17, 0.

I remember buying a bag of these amazing little bulbs Happy memories from our wonderful Italy-Croatia garden tour stevewhysall - October 2, 0. Farewell to Ljubljana as our tour comes to a happy conclusion stevewhysall - September 28, 0. In Ljubljana, we started the last day of our tour with a walk around the old town centre. Colourful building outside our hotel in Ljubljana.