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August is a busy but rewarding month in the garden. Although heat stress and plant fatigue can be a challenge, with attentive care, tidying up, and strategic watering and fertilizing, your lawn and garden can thrive into the fall. Tune in to hear Joanne’s tips and advice for keeping your lawn and garden thriving in …Read more About “August in the Garden”

In this encore episode of the Down the Garden Path podcast, landscape designer Joanne Shaw offers mid-season advice for your lawn and garden. Tune in to hear Joanne’s mid-season advice for your lawn and garden. Topics covered in this week’s episode: YES, you can still plant this summer. You do not need to wait until …Read more About “Mid-Season Advice”

In this encore presentation of Down the Garden Path, landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing discuss applying nematodes, the primary method homeowners in Canada use to control pests such as grubs on our lawns. It’s been a heavy Japanese beetle season in the Greater Toronto Area, with a lot of damage done to the …Read more About “Applying Nematodes”

In this encore presentation of Down the Garden Path, Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing discuss how to design with native plants and strike a balance in your garden between natives and the foreign ornamentals we love so much. When people think about native plants, they often think of a wild meadow or an unkept urban …Read more About “Designing with Native Plants”

In this episode of Down the Garden Path, Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing discuss a popular and sometimes controversial topic in the garden: mulch. To mulch or not to mulch, that is the question! Here are some of the questions and topics covered in this episode: What is mulch? The different kinds of mulch What …Read more About “Adding Mulch to the Garden”

In this episode of Down the Garden Path, Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing show you how to keep your garden and landscape thriving during the August heat with tips and tricks and do’s and don’ts for your August garden. Tune in to hear Joanne and Matt discuss what you should (and shouldn’t) be doing in …Read more About “August in the Garden”

In this last Down the Garden Path podcast for August, landscape designers Matthew Dressing and Joanne Shaw wrap up the summer months by getting your questions answered! Matt and Joanne conclude their month-long discussion of popular flowering trees in the landscape, and their summer of deep dives into the perennial, shrub, and tree staples of …Read more About “Your Questions Answered”

In this episode of Down the Garden Path, landscape designers Matthew Dressing and Joanne Shaw continue their month-long discussion of popular flowering trees with a look at some of the other popular large flowering tree cultivars we often see in the landscape. Tune in this week as Joanne and Matt discuss: The following popular flowering …Read more About “Large Flowering Trees”

In this episode of Down the Garden Path, landscape designers Matthew Dressing and Joanne Shaw continue their month-long discussion on flowering trees with a look at some of the medium-sized flowering landscape specimens. Tune in to learn more about how to incorporate medium-sized flowering trees in your garden. Joanne and Matt pick up where they …Read more About “Standard Flowering Trees Part Two”

This month on Down the Garden Path, landscape designers Matthew Dressing and Joanne Shaw explore some of the most popular shrubs to grace nursery benches and gardens. In this episode, they take a look at weigelas, their colourful foliage, seasons of bloom, and the different sized cultivars to fit perfectly in any garden. Tune in …Read more About “Weigelas”