Rhubarb is a low-maintenance water-wise edible perennial that will contribute nicely to your garden and your kitchen.
Rhubarb– A Water-Wise Edible Perennial
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XERISCAPE PLANTS
Get the Most from your Perennials
The abrupt change to hot summer weather can be hard on plants. Flowers will fade more quickly. Now is a good time to do a midseason, major garden clean-up.
Lavender
Thriving in our hot dry summers, lavender blooms abundantly from mid-June for about four weeks, its flowers attracting butterflies, bees and other pollinators.
Watering and Feeding Ornamental Grasses
The following is an excerpt from the Blue Stem website. This site was put together by Jim Brockmeyer and Muriel Neale as part of a nursery business they were running in Christina Lake, BC. Both have now retired, but their excellent website lives on with funding for...