Magazine
April 2009 Issue:
Spring garden primer
What to plant for all-season blooms; Small-space lawn alternatives; Prep, prune, plant: 29 top hand tools; Start your best-ever vegetable garden right now; Easy-to-grow fritillaries make a comeback and more!
Table of Contents
IN EVERY ISSUE
Editor's letter (6)
Snapshots (10)
Mailbox (12)
Coming up (87)
Source guide (89)
Clippings (15)
The latest news, tips, timely tasks, ideas and more
Hort couture (22)
Our favourite hand tools to get you going this spring
Star plant picks (26)
Forsythias: Golden blooms are the reward for the gardener who favours this beauty
HOW-TO
Design matters (32)
Up in the air: This house begs for plant and architectural anchors
Small talk (34)
Turn grass into garden: Ideas for gardens where lawn once grew
Techniques (38)
Preparing a vegetable plot: Homegrown is the way to go
GRASSROOTS
transCanada (78)
Our correspondents give us their regional updates
Down to earth (88)
Seeds of regret: Weeping for what you don't sow
Groundswell (98)
Experts share their choices for the most beautiful garden plant
GARDENS
Improvised impressionism (42)
A bloom-filled West Coast garden is returned to its former glory, but with an Asian twist
Paradise found (50)
Nature meets nurture in this idyllic Vancouver garden
Against the odds (62)
This Zone 2 garden defies the elements to bask in the splendour of its bounteous blooms
GROWING
Dramatic effect (58)
No garden should ever be without spectacular spring bloomers
Early to rise (70)
Leaf lettuce is the pick of the crop
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