Quinte Botanical Garden

Quinte Botanical Gardens is located in Eastern Ontario.
Enjoy six acres of unique garden displays with extraordinary plant combinations.  An outdoor, healthy attraction, you can enjoy nature at its best.  Each garden offers interesting insight into the world of plants.Connect with nature, learn about horticulture or journey through the gardens at your own pace.
Gardens include:

• Bee, Bird, Butterfly Garden
• Oriental Garden 
• Romantic Rose Garden.

The Colour Wheel Garden is the largest in the world.

Wander, learn, unwind and relax all at the Quinte Botanical Gardens!  

Edible Garden Newsletter February 2018

The Edible Garden Newsletter February 2018 is now here.  The days are finally starting to get longer and gardeners are planning what they can plant indoors to get a faster start when spring arrives.  In this issue we discuss lighting, whether it is from a sunny window or from grow lights and how you can use it to get your plants off to an excellent start.  If you are planting your vegetable garden in containers or on a balcony, we have some helpful tips.  Although the days are getting longer, we still have more winter left and it is a great time to experiment with using the parts of your vegetables you would normally put in the compost bin to grow more.  Finally, a housebound gardener tells of a Fava Bean experiment that led to a delicious soup.

Tomato Plant Disease

Ask a Vegetable Gardener, if you could grow only one plant, what would it be. Tomatoes is the overwhelming answer. How do you protect these favorites from disease? Tomato Plant Disease: How to identify and control tomato diseases

Favourited by Lanark County Master Gardener

Avoid spreading #invasivespecies in your garden. Learn to identify and report invasive plants and #growme instead! http://bit.ly/2AFKAak http://pic.twitter.com/GRSRY9S62N

— haltonmastergardener (@HaltonMGs) January 8, 2018

Edible Garden Newsletter January 2018

Edible Garden Newsletter January 2018 is now here.  This is the time of year when vegetable gardeners pour over the seed catalogues to determine what to plant.  How long are my tomato seeds viable?  Is there anyway I can check if they are still viable. How should I store my seeds if I once again, over order.  Find out here.  We all know that some vegetables like to be planted near each other while others do not want to be anywhere near each other.  This month we feature an article on companion planting with a handy chart that shows who likes each other and who does not.  Who knew that cabbage likes to be near Bush Beans but does not like being near Pole Beans.

Favourited by Lanark County Master Gardener

Did you give or receive an amaryllis plant for the holidays? Here are some best practices that can help you maximize the beauty of this gorgeous plant. http://bit.ly/2l7dhrU http://pic.twitter.com/vLOaWT8RPr

— Horticulture Mag (@CoHorts) December 26, 2017

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A Guide to Pairing Herbs With Your Food — http://bit.ly/2l643wf http://pic.twitter.com/3ctv6OwSGN

— Mental Floss (@mental_floss) December 24, 2017

World Plants

Our Blog is changing.  In the past, we had a widget on the left side of the Blog that provided access to Canada Plant Website.  That website has disappeared and our blog modified to provide access to World Plant Website.  Enter the website by various plant categories, such as Annual, Perennial, Woody, Bulbs and search for your plant based on common name or botanical name.  If you are looking to identify a plant, enter various plant features and conduct a search.  In addition to searching for plants, the website has other resources that you may find helpful, such as links to presentations, articles and images.  All are copyrighted but may be used for educational purposes.  Spend a little time looking around this new feature and we are sure you will like it as much as we do.

Canada's 150th Birthday celebration is drawing to a close.  Our special Side Bar Feature, Canada's Garden Route will soon be removed from our blog.  Hope you enjoyed it.