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localgardener.net Spring 2016 • 3
How does your garden grow?
Contents
Garden Features Local dirt
4 Do-it-yourself container recipes
A lesson in permaculture Growing raspberries
Country living: Creating a potager
Garden shopping guide 10 less common annuals
Ferns reign in the shade
Ajuga plant this under your evergreens
Cultivating your health 4 8
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10 Neat Things about petunias 29 Shady characters
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Hydrangea in a shade garden. Cover photo by Dorothy Dobbie.
Columns Buzzing around
Mad about orioles
Gardening with kids: How to make concrete mushrooms
What we love Classifieds
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VOLUME 19 ISSUE #2, 2016
Reimer Soils 204.237.6668
LANDSCAPING SUPPLIES
200 Warman Rd East (off Lagimodiere Blvd)
www.reimersoils.ca
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