
Beautiful and Easy to Grow Native Plants for Your Garden
By Debbie Innes, Master Gardener Oh, the beauty and reliability of native plants! I have grown to appreciate native plants for their variety, hardiness, and reliability, as well as for their value to our birds, bees and butterflies, …
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A review of The Prairie Garden 2023: Climate Aware Gardening
By Darlene Belton, Master Gardener A dire theme, one that many would rather avoid, is faced head on in this year’s edition of The Prairie Garden (TPG) that styles itself as ‘Western Canada’s only gardening annual’. A vigorous …
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Rain Gardens: The Ins and Outs
by Mark Bauche, Master Gardener, MALA, SALA, CSLA Mark Bauche is a Landscape Architect and Master Gardener. Through his work at HTFC Planning & Design in Winnipeg, he incorporates climate adaptation into his designs and seeks out new …
Reducing my Lawn – One gardener’s perspective two years in
By Derek Yarnell, Master Gardener Two full growing seasons after having reduced the least ecologically productive part of my gardens – my front lawn – by about 50% or roughly 800 square feet, this is some of what …
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Strengthening Community Climate Resilience: Citizens Play a Crucial Role
Strengthening Community Climate Resilience: Citizens play a crucial role in caring for both public and private trees By Colleen Zacharias, Master Gardener What can people do to support trees on their private properties but also newly planted …
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Sturgeon Creek Greenway Trail – A Volunteer Project
Sturgeon Creek Greenway Trail – A Volunteer Project Progress report since November 2021 By Diane Daignault, Master Gardner Since spring 2022, our project members, Nancy Edwards, Janet Epp, Brenda Evans, Sharon Moffat, Joelle Potrebka, Virginia Stephenson, Diane Wall, …
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Starting All Over Again in the Country
By Kelley Liebzeit, Master Gardener In 2015 I achieved some of my gardening goals. First I officially became a Master Gardener. Then in July my garden was featured on the Nature Manitoba Garden Tour and 2 weeks …

Managing Climate Change – What Are We to Do?
Mark Bauche, Master Gardener, MALA, SALA, CSLA As Master Gardeners, we see the effects of climate change season after season, but what can we as individuals, or even as an association, do to help address it? There have …
Best Native Plants for your Garden – Our Members in the Community
Best Native Plants for your Garden – Linda Dietrick March 8/22 – 6:30 – 7:30pm Winnipeg Public Library Zoom Presentation Registration required: Click Here Master Gardener Linda Dietrick will discuss high-priority native plants that are essential for the …
Non-Native Plants in Your Garden
Linda Dietrick, Master Gardener, presenter for Prairie Naturals Gardening Group (PNGG) January 13/22 – 7 – 8:30pm Zoom Presentation Linda Dietrick, PNGG member, Master Gardener, and former editor of The Prairie Garden, including the 2020 issue, Inspired by …