Guide to Planning Your Garden
Everything you wish someone had told you before you walked through those doors and came home with seven incompatible impulse purchases.
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Chapter 1: Know your zone
The GTA's winters are not a suggestion. Understanding your hardiness zone before you buy is the single most important step between a thriving garden and a very expensive disappointment.
The GTA's winters are not a suggestion. Understanding your hardiness zone before you buy is the single most important step between a thriving garden and a very expensive disappointment.
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Chapter 2: Before you go
Light, soil, colour, scale — four things to figure out before you ever set foot in the nursery. A little homework here saves a lot of replanting later.
Light, soil, colour, scale — four things to figure out before you ever set foot in the nursery. A little homework here saves a lot of replanting later.
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Chapter 3: Design principles
Why nine of one plant is always better than one of nine plants. And what structure, froth, and spikes actually mean.
Why nine of one plant is always better than one of nine plants. And what structure, froth, and spikes actually mean.
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Chapter 4: Season by season
July is harder than it looks. Plan for the whole growing season from the very start.
July is harder than it looks. Plan for the whole growing season from the very start.
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Chapter 5: Reading tags
That little plastic label contains everything you need to know. Most people don't read it carefully enough.
That little plastic label contains everything you need to know. Most people don't read it carefully enough.
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Chapter 6: Container gardening
Go big or go cluttered. The case for fewer, larger containers — and why less is genuinely more.
Go big or go cluttered. The case for fewer, larger containers — and why less is genuinely more.
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Chapter 7: Your Garden Centre Checklist
Fill this in before you go. Your future self will thank you.
Fill this in before you go. Your future self will thank you.
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