Mango Tango Potentilla: Manitoba Mangoes?
If you were looking for long seasoned flowers, we have three different families of shr...
Currants: A Berry Fine Choice!
Why plant a currant you may ask? Well, one reason would be that currants are some of t...
Silver Maple – Prairie Silver
This tree is almost native to Manitoba. I have found Silver Maples growing very close ...
Froebel Spirea
So many spireas! There are so many kinds to pick from! Some with white flowers and som...
Common Lilac: A Fragrant Tapestry of Spring
When I started working in sales at our nursery and saw how many different lilacs varie...
Ninebarks: Compare & Contrast
I remember the first time I saw a purple shrub I was somewhere between confused and im...
Valiant Grape: The Resilient Champion
As unlikely as it may seem there are grapes that can survive here in Manitoba and prod...
Blizzard Mockorange: Not an Orange…
As spring arrives the early bloomers like cherries, plums, apricots and forsythia are ...
Miss Kim Lilac: Her Name is Kim
The one species of shrubs we carry the most varieties of is undoubtedly lilacs. At lea...