PRODUCT INFO
Gardening in zones 2 and 3 provides numerous challenges and rewards but thank goodness for the instant gratification that colourful annuals and biennial plants can provide. With the gardening season being so short, there is great pleasure that can be obtained by bringing home a collection of exotic annuals that can spice up your garden immediately. This edition explores the themes of annuals and biennials and will enhance the reader’s understanding of the diverse selections available at your local garden centres.
Learn about the rewarding experience that growing annuals from seeds can bring and understand that this activity is for everyone and not only for the “serious” gardener. You will gain insight into which annuals to choose that will do best in the “micro-climate’ of your own garden. Learn about how gardening favourites such as dahlias, begonias, fuchsias, gladiolus, and impatiens can best be put to practical use. Learn about the many new plants that have been introduced along with many new colours that are now available. For instance, geranium varieties have expanded from zonal varieties to include ivies and scented ones. Read about the dramatic changes that your old favourite petunias have undergone with the introduction of new varieties such as calibrachoa, wave, and cascade forms.
The general section also contains an interesting array of articles ranging from learning about companion planting, how to grow gladiolas, plants for ponds, growing pines and cedars and growing a garden in a zone one climate.
A garden can be planted for all seasons. Annuals, despite the fact that they are limited to a single growing season, play an integral part in in adding colour, texture, and drama to the garden.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Topics
Authors
Guest Editorial
Carla Hrycyna
An Editorial Note
Richard Denesiuk
How To Plant Your Garden
Author Unknown
What Are Annual and Biennial Plants?
Elizabeth Punter
Using Perennials As Annuals
Jim Kohut
The Miracle and Suspense of Seeds
Carla Zelmer
How to Read a Seed Packet
Carla Hrycyna
Seeding Annuals Outside
Susanne Olver and Linda Pearn
Dancing Queens of the Garden: A Spotlight on Annuals
Marilyn Dudek
Uninvited Annuals
Frances Wershler
Impatiens – Busy Lizzy has never been busier
Dorothy Dobbie
Falling for Flowers (the Cool Ones!)
Carla Hrycyna
Marigolds
Miles Duncan
Touch-Me-Not
Shirley Froehlich
Petunias
John Van Beveren
Understanding Coleus: the Garden’s Kaleidoscope
Dr. Bob Bors
The Nonstop Begonia - An Exotic for Prairie Gardens
Allan J. Murphy
Osteospermum 101
Jared Van Beveren
Dahlias for the Prairies
John Rempel
Fuchsia
Sue McLeod
The Other Potato Plants – Ipomoeas and Solanums
Carla Hrycyna
The Ukrainian Mal’va
Orysia Tracz
Cool Annuals
Alfred G. Prins
Annual Vines
Valerie Denesiuk
Swayed to Use Grasses
Carla Hrycyna
Annuals for Shade
Dorothy Dobbie
Biennials
Ed Czarnecki
Biennial Vegetables
Ed Czarnecki
Callas and Cannas – The Other Lilies
Carla Hrycyna and Claire Berube
Geraniums
Ray Mryglod
Seed to Success
Carla Hrycyna
Designing Flowerbeds with Annuals and Creating an English Garden
Rosie Chard
Osteos
Ray Mryglod
The Sun’s Flower
Evelyn Ione Turner
Recommended List of Annual Flowers for Manitoba
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Recommended List of Cut Flowers
Carla Hrycyna and Ed Czarnecki
Insects Which Feed on Annual Plants in the Prairie Garden
Terry Galloway
Benefits of Companion Planting
Jeannette Adams
Companion Planting
Ken Land
Growing Gladiolus
Ken Land
The Story of a Hummingbird
Carla Hrycyna
Popular Poppies
Frances Wershler
The New Garden Complex at the International Peace Garden
Douglas Hevenor
Pond Plants
Ken Land
Window Pain
Sherrie Versluis
Musings of a Zone 1 Gardener
Darm Crook
Problems and Solutions for Pine and Cedar Trees and Shrubs on the Prairies
Michael Allen
Hellebores – Pushing The Envelope And Raising The Bar
Sandy Venton
The Gardens of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Warren Otto
Acidifying Garden Soils
Ieuan Evans
To Demystify the Alpine
Amanda Botincan
“Fast Plant Nation”
Colleen Zacharias
50 Years Ago – The New African Violet
A.W. Sellers
The 2009 Prairie Garden Award for Excellence
Linda Pearn
Q & A
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