Canada's Local Gardener Volume 2 Issue 1

Page 56

One of the things that makes Roy’s gardens so spectacular is the borrowed scenery of beautiful New Brunswick.

Beautiful Gardens Roy Morris

Upper Golden Grove, New Brunswick Story by Shauna Dobbie, Photos by Roy Morris 56 • 2020

Issue 1

“T

he way I look at things is, you can’t go wrong with green and beauty. So, I try to make the world a prettier place,” says Roy Morris. He’s on the phone, reflecting on the gardens he’s worked on in his 75 years. That would be gardens at the three houses he’s lived plus those of people he’s helped; he figures he’s put in over 100 ponds. Roy started gardening when he bought his first house. He put some plants in, and a new passion was born. Over the years, he started landscaping for others on his days off; he worked in quality control at Irving Paper. “Every time I would tackle a project for somebody, it localgardener.net


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Beautiful Gardens: Roy Morris, Upper Golden Grove, New Brunswick

4min
pages 56-61

Beautiful Gardens: Helen Hogue, Winnipeg

5min
pages 50-55

Beautiful Gardens: Victoria Beatti, Calgary

6min
pages 44-49

Beautiful Gardens: Lynne and Michael Knowlton, Durham, Ontario

4min
pages 38-43

Dealing with deer

4min
pages 27-29

How to get started

5min
pages 62-64

Things plants know

5min
pages 35-37

Tree diversity: A popular concept but not without concerns

5min
pages 32-34

End of season tool care

3min
page 30

Two olde dawgs: The seasons are changing, what to do now?

3min
page 31

Cheating the climate gods

3min
pages 22-23

Growing hot peppers – what makes them hotter?

7min
pages 24-26

The unhumble dandelion and its imitators

4min
pages 20-21

Save the great red oak

2min
pages 8-9

Hugelkultur

2min
page 13

Have you ever tried growing pineapple?

3min
pages 18-19

Houseplants 101

4min
pages 10-12

Looking for beautiful gardens

1min
page 5

Dear gardeners

3min
page 4

Planning a fairy garden

3min
pages 14-17

What you need to know about growing tomatoes on a balcony

4min
pages 6-7
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