Introducing Canada’s local Gardener

Dear readers,

I’m very proud to bring you the first issue of Canada’s Local Gardener!

After about 20 years of publishing our three magazines, Alberta Gardener, Manitoba Gardener and Ontario Gardener, we’re bringing you one magazine to cover all three provinces. Don’t want to give up your provincial content? You don’t have to. Read on to find out how you can access that content, available only to buyers of this magazine, online.

This is the magazine that focuses on gardening, the natural world and our relationship with it. For the inaugural issue, we’ve printed stories about Canada’s national animal symbol, the beaver; how ferns reproduce; and the many kinds of salvias you can grow. We also have an interview with Niki Jabbour, the force behind a number of gardening books and the website Savvy Gardening. And we look at the Prunus genre, which includes cherries, plums, apricots and peaches. Chances are you can grow some of them in your garden!

We have a story on how you can grow string of pearls as a house plant and another on why you’ll have trouble growing rosemary as a houseplant—but it’s still worth a try. Plus, have you ever thought of growing mushrooms? We have some instructions to take you one step beyond buying a grow kit.

We’ll take you inside three beautiful gardens: Laura and Steve Lucyshyn in Edmonton; Jacquie Derewianchuk and Mark Shurek near Stonewall, Manitoba; and Betty and Bob Trethewey in Orillia, Ontario.

Now, if you’ve been looking forward to reading material specific to your province, you can go online using the QR code below, to find stories exclusively for Alberta, Manitoba or Ontario, including another garden for each province and a few other tidbits.

I want to invite you to have a look at this magazine and the online material and tell me what you think. Give us your opinions about what we’ve done and your ideas about what we should look at in the future.

I hope you enjoy it!

Shauna Dobbie shauna@pegasuspublications.net

Next issue: Canada’s Local Gardener brings you our special annual edition of Beautiful Gardens. A total of gorgeous gardens we visited this summer in Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario, the pictures we took and the gardeners we met. As well, we’ll have reviews of all the seed catalogues in Canada we could find. All of them. And there are a lot!

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