Photograph Your Spring… to Make It Even More Beautiful!
If you’re like me, the first spring flowers do you the greatest good! How we savor them! Finally, back toContinue Reading
Author: Julie Boudreau
Julie Boudreau is a horticulturist who trained at the Institut de technologie agroalimentaire in Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec. She’s been working with plants for more than 25 years. She has published many gardening books and hosted various radio and television shows. She now teaches horticulture at the Centre de formation horticole of Laval. A great gardening enthusiast, she’s devoted to promoting gardening, garden design, botany and ecology in every form. Born a fan of organic gardening, she’s curious and cultivates a passion for all that can be eaten. Julie Boudreau is “epicurious” and also fascinated by Latin names.
Where did the dandelion go?
A few weeks ago I was doing a little research on a glorious plant well known to all, the dandelion.Continue Reading
Add Native Shrubs to your Garden!
Last week, I wrote about small urban trees and including a wonderful small native tree, the Alternate-leaved Dogwood (Cornus alternifolia).Continue Reading
Small Trees for Urban Gardens
Planting trees in an urban environment seems like an obvious choice to me. I’m surprised every time I come acrossContinue Reading
An Ode to Sorrel
The endless winter is the reason why I love sorrel so much. One of the most important qualities of sorrel is that it is very early.
Celebrating the 25th anniversary of my surviving alpine plants!
Twenty-five years ago this year, I became interested in alpine plants. It came to me, out of the blue: theContinue Reading
The (Almost) Eternally Lasting Pruning Shears
As soon as you begin to take gardening a little bit more seriously, you slowly start to equip yourself withContinue Reading
My Monarch Mission!
In 2013, I went to Mexico. Not to sunbathe my bikini body on a tourist beach. Ten years ago, IContinue Reading
Why I would blacklist giant butterbur as an invasive alien plant
When we think of invasive plants, we often imagine the common reed or the Japanese knotweed, crossing the oceans aboardContinue Reading
Living the Shinrin-yoku Experience… in Your Backyard!
For some time now, we have been hearing a lot about this new Japanese trend, Shinrin-yoku. Freely translated as forestContinue Reading