Mike Lascelle

The butternut is also known as heartnut.

Gardening: You can’t keep a good nut down

The year 1942 was a bad one to be a Canadian of Japanese descent.

The butternut is also known as heartnut.
Growing sunflowers really isn’t that hard provided you follow a few simple rules.

Gardening: The flower that gives back

What I didn’t know was how versatile this plant is in terms of potential uses and the benefits.

Growing sunflowers really isn’t that hard provided you follow a few simple rules.
Watering did not penetrate very deeply kept this parsnip growing close to the surface and produced multiple roots to take advantage of the shallow moisture level.

Gardening: Don’t be shy, eat your ugly vegetables

The parsnip was a gift from an experienced but bemused gardener who wondered what went wrong.

Watering did not penetrate very deeply kept this parsnip growing close to the surface and produced multiple roots to take advantage of the shallow moisture level.

Gardens: Asking for a little less fertilizer

Save our marine animals, your lawn doesn't have to look so deep green

Cucumelon is a cucumber-like fruit that looks just like a tiny watermelon.

Gardening: predictions from 2016

I don’t have to be a rocket scientist to notice that people’s tastes in gardening are changing.

Cucumelon is a cucumber-like fruit that looks just like a tiny watermelon.
One of the black bunnies, and Cotinus coggygria ‘Velvet Cloak.’

Gardening: Dealing with those cute little bunnies

The garden is being refurbished much in part to the fact that about 80 per cent of the existing trees are dead.

One of the black bunnies, and Cotinus coggygria ‘Velvet Cloak.’
Hydrangea ‘Pink Winky’ Standard and Hydrangea ‘Bobo.’

Gardening: Invasion of the Coneheads

Paniculata hydrangeas so hardy they survive in Winnipeg.

Hydrangea ‘Pink Winky’ Standard and Hydrangea ‘Bobo.’
Fuchsia boliviana and Elaeagnus umbellata.

Gardening: Something new for the palate

Moral of story, no matter how adventurous you think you are in the culinary department, by all means avoid the sea cucumber.

Fuchsia boliviana and Elaeagnus umbellata.
The Orangerie Parterre.

Formal gardens of the world

The epitome of this exaggerated landscape sits about 13 miles southwest of Paris with the Palace of Versailles.

The Orangerie Parterre.

Gardening: In the garden of Karl

3.5 acre parcel of rural Pitt Meadows has become a small island of sanity

Gardening: The other Japanese cherries

While beautiful in bloom, Japanese cherries are prone to many diseases

Gardening: The United Nations of gardening

Horticulture is virtually ‘colour blind,’ to race and it also doesn’t discriminate against age either

Gardening: Cornelian cherry, tree of many talents

Helps brighten dismal February days with brilliant haze of yellow flowers

Gardening: Playing Valentine’s Day roulette

Some helpful tips on the best type of flowers for the big day

Gardening: How to clone a clematis plant

A look at a local wholesale nursery that produces many of this spring's plants

Creating a winterberry wreath

Creating a winterberry wreath

A homemade winterberry wreath in three easy steps.

Creating a winterberry wreath
The Christmas trees of 1914

Back to the (rare) winter garden

We live in a rare corner of Canada where we actually have a winter gardening season.

The Christmas trees of 1914
When casting a vote for any candidate, you should be asking yourself what is their motive for standing for election.

Vote like a gardener

Mike Lascelle points out some hot topics to consider in the upcoming municipal election.

When casting a vote for any candidate, you should be asking yourself what is their motive for standing for election.
A record-breaking ornamental sweet potato.

Gardening: Harvest, tidy and decorate

The brilliant leaves are beautiful to behold, but seem to fall faster than we can rake them up.

A record-breaking ornamental sweet potato.
Local gardeners get together to clean their cocoons.

Gardening: Constant of change, either way

Finding accurate horticultural information that is regionally relevant is difficult, if not impossible at times, even on the world-wide web.

Local gardeners get together to clean their cocoons.