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The WildFlower News

Growing nature's garden

Monthly Archives

Catch up on what we’ve been doing, reading, and writing about.
Rocky Mountain Blazing Star

April 2022

• Sowing Outside in Spring
• A Plant For Every Reason, Part 5
• Grasses of the Edmonton Region, Part 4

Sun Flower

March 2022

• A Plant For Every Reason, Part 4
• Grasses of the Edmonton Region, Part 3

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February 2022

• A Plant For Every Reason Part 3
• Grasses of the Edmonton Region Part 2
• More Sleeping Bees and Native Wildflowers at Bunchberry Meadows

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January 2022

• Teaming with Microbes Book Review
• Grasses of the Edmonton Region Part 1
• Bunchberry Meadows

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December 2021

• A Plant For Every Reason, Part 2
• The Nature of Oaks by Douglas W. Tallamy
• Naturalization: the City's new initiative. Will it work?

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November 2021

• A Plant For Every Reason, Part 1
• A Willow called Autumn
• A Backyard of Wonder

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October 2021

Articles
• Adventures with Rares!
• Some Native Plants in a Calgary Garden
• Planting a New Pollinator Garden at the Smith-Blackburn Homestead

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September 2021

• Bedstraw, Observations-A new species for Alberta?
• What’s Up with Buttercups?

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August 2021

• Top 5 Native Plants for Birds
• If you go down to the marsh today…look for the umbel-bearing plants
in flower and fruit

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July 2021

• The Purple Invasion of Riverlot 56

• Elk Island flower count
• The pea family is now in clover – how to tell a locoweed from a sweet-vetch
from a milk-vetch!

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June 2021

• St. Albert Botanic Park
• UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration
• The Common Dandelion - Eco-imperialist Supreme

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May 2021

• Virtues of Native Plants
• Restoration: The Uncertainty Principle – Part Two