Tropical plants could use some TLC.

Published in the Toronto Star – January 13, 2018 Dirty knees and gardening go together, just not at this time of year.  Fact is, many of us ‘garden’ indoors in the Canadian winter.  We grow tropical plants, amaryllis, windowsill herbs, bean sprouts and more. The need to nurture plants through the winter months is a good…

Published in the Toronto Star – November 25, 2017 We’re not quite ready to admit that the Canadian gardening season is “over”. In fact, we belong to a growing number of gardeners who are getting their plant fix indoors. We have been maintaining plants indoors for as long as there has been indoor space to put…

I want you to benefit from my extensive experience and personal bias. These are the rest of my favourite plants.

Published in the Toronto Star – March 17, 2018   Gardening trends are constantly changing.  Never faster than now. Some things don’t change (thankfully), like the sound of the wind in the trees, bird song and the daffodils that arrive each spring, while others do.  Here is our list of the top six current trends that…

Published in the Toronto Star – March 3, 2018   “Negative emissions” are a good thing.  For the environment and for your health. Scientists don’t always think like marketers when they name these things.  We wish that negative emissions sounded more positive.  Cause they are. Negative emissions – the removal of pollutants from the atmosphere –…

Published in the Toronto Star – January 20, 2018   Ben was ‘an artist without a canvas’ – a passion for food, and nowhere to plant. When he graduated from the Ridgetown Agriculture College there was one thing that set him apart from most of his classmates: he was not leaving school to return to the…

Your hibiscus, dipladenia and dracaena [among others] provided a great service during the gardening season but their time out of doors is over. That is, if you want to enjoy them indoors for the off-season and have them survive to enjoy another season outdoors next summer.

Published in the Toronto Star – March 31, 2018   There is a way to squeeze more gardening into your life. Podcasts. Increasingly, during long drives, plane travel or even puttering around the house, we find ourselves tuned into them. For the uninitiated, podcasts are audio productions which can be downloaded to your phone and listened…

Published in the Toronto Star – March 24, 2018   The idea of collecting rose bushes is dead.  For generations, a sunny yard included a ‘rose garden’ somewhere.  In the early days of Weall and Cullen Nurseries, our family business, retail customers would buy wagon loads of rose bushes each spring. Canadians have not lost their…