Category: Article
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GARDENING FOR POLLINATORS
An informative brochure detailing what to grow to attract pollinators to your garden. Learn which plants attract honey bees, native bumblebees, native solitary bees and other beneficial insects. Brochure: Gardening […]
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COMMON BEES OF THE SOUTHERN INTERIOR OF BC
This brochure focuses on the most common bees that observers might see in their gardens or on hiking trails. Brochure: Common Bees of the Southern Interior, 2nd edition Drab reddish-brown […]
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ASK A MASTER GARDENER
Have a Gardening Question? ASK A MASTER GARDENER! Are you curious about vegetable gardening? Puzzled about what flowers to grow? Wondering what is the best way to get rid of […]
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FRIEND OR FOE
INSECTS ARE EVERYWHERE and they are the most diverse creatures in the world! It’s impossible to keep them out of our gardens, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing because […]
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SELECTING PLANTS FOR POLLINATORS
THIS REGIONAL GUIDE IS JUST ONE in a series of plant selection tools designed to provide you with information on how to plant local native plants for pollinators. Each of […]
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Members Morning at VanDusen
Forty or so Vancouver Master Gardeners gathered in the atrium at VanDusen Botanical Garden on Monday, May 30, 2022. At this first official gathering since 2019, members entered the warm […]
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🪲PEST ALERT: Japanese Beetle | What You Need to Know
The best defining characteristic of this beetle is the six tufts of white hairs running down either sides of the abdomen– no other beetle in BC has this pattern. Japanese […]
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Douglas-Fir ~ Its Features and Its History
I think of the First Nations myth about a Douglas-fir cone’s bracts resembling the rear end of a hiding mouse. The grooves on Douglas-fir’s bark are deep enough to afford […]
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Our favorite websites of 2022
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Chinese Windmill Palm
When is a tree not a tree? When it’s a palm, a single-stemmed monocotyledon. Along with every other member of the Arecaceae family of palms, the windmill palm is a […]