Trick or Treat? Both for These “Carnivorous” Plants!
You’re back, dear audience, for the apotheosis of our Great Plant Circus of the Laidback Gardener! It’s a pleasure toContinue Reading
Author: Audrey Martel
Audrey Martel is a biologist who graduated from the University of Montreal. After more than ten years in the field of scientific animation, notably for Parks Canada and the Granby Zoo, she joined Nature Conservancy of Canada to take up new challenges in scientific writing. She then moved into marketing and joined Leo Studio. Full of life and always up for a giggle, or the discovery of a new edible plant, she never abandoned her love for nature and writes articles for both Nature sauvage and the Laidback Gardener.
Ephedra: Cure or Poison?
Come one, come all! The fourth show in the Halloween series is about to begin at the Laidback Gardener’s GreatContinue Reading
This Deadly Plant Has Its Doll’s Eye on You
This week’s show promises to be an emotional one. The Laidback Gardener’s circus of plants will stop at nothing forContinue Reading
Hydnora: Fact or Fiction?
Welcome back to the big top for an extraordinary act by the great Laiback gardener plant circus. If you missedContinue Reading
A predator faster than the eye: the bladderwort
October at last! Are you ready for my traditional Halloween series? After unloved animals in the garden in 2022 andContinue Reading
How to Kill Your Soil in the Fall?
This is already my last article of September: how time flies! My favorite month is already over… But that alsoContinue Reading
Getting Ready for Winter: How to Harness the Magic of Summer
Are you prone to seasonal depression? I am… Autumn may be my favorite season, but when the leaves have fallenContinue Reading
5 Things to Do With Your Surplus Crops
I don’t know about you, but my garden is huge. Every year, I get a surprise: either my 20 tomatoContinue Reading
A Mushroom in My Mulch!
Coriander. You either love it or hate it. It’s impossible to be indifferent! Mulch is no different. Many plants andContinue Reading
Discover Quebec’s First Figs!
Late August is the perfect time to go sightseeing in Quebec: the weather’s nice, it’s not too hot, the vegetationContinue Reading