By the time Barbara has finished cutting back this poor hosta you’d think it was defunct! But not so. Next year it will be back to beautify the garden once again. Watch the video and you’ll see you don’t have to be timid when cutting back your hosta or other perennials!

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You can have your favourite plants back year after year, even if they are annual, if you carefully take cuttings of them. Here, Barbara takes cuttings of a lovely tall Impatiens plant.

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As part of your fall garden cleanup you’ll be breaking up large pots. Watch out for “residents” already established, as Barbara found out the hard way!

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Helen gets to work breaking up a large pot containing geraniums, salvia and some very determined perennials.

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I’ve got a lovely container filled with Coleus and Hibiscus that needed a little attention.  The coleus was starting to get a little leggy - and unlike the human world, leggy in the plant world is not such a good thing.  Basically, the stems were stretching out and I wanted the plants to be bushier.  [...]

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I feel safe in saying that weeding is nobody’s favourite garden chore — and yes, this one really is a chore! Nevertheless, it has to be done if we want to keep the garden looking lovely. But how do you know what is a weed and what is a plant to be kept?

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Doronicum needs to be cut back when its season is over, or its seeds will spread like wildfire.

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Some plants inexplicably decide to lie on the ground instead of standing up. In this video, Barbara provides a “chair” for one plant, and illustrates how she has helped an Echium plant stand tall in the garden.

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Here, Bruce shows Helen how to revive a flagging flowerbed by removing old plants and replacing them with new ones he has started in his greenhouse. We also talk about a special pest issue around marigolds and how to deal with it.
Sorry about the noise on parts of this video — it’s the wind blowing [...]

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Here is a container of pansies I started in April.  As you can see, while it is still blooming, it has become overgrown and the centre of the pot is bare.  Pansies are really a cool weather plant.  When it becomes too hot, the pansies become long and leggy.  So, when your pot looks like [...]

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