Canada's Local Gardener Volume 3 Issue 1

Page 50

The century house in Virden.

Beautiful Gardens Doyle Piwniuk Virden, Manitoba

Story by Dorothy Dobbie, photos by Dorothy and Shauna Dobbie 50 • 2021

Issue 1

D

oyle Piwniuk is a tree man. The colour, texture and form of trees inspire him, particularly during the autumn changes when some maples take on a dress of crimson. In Manitoba, where gold is the colour of the season, red in the landscape is a novelty. It shows so well against the dark green cedars and black spruce trees that populate the area. Virden, a small town in Manitoba’s oil patch just off the Trans Canada Highway on the way to localgardener.net


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Beautiful Gardens: Francis Bird, Charlottetown, PEI

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pages 55-59

Beautiful gardens: Stephanie Rose, Vancouver

4min
pages 44-49

a garden and a disability

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pages 40-43

Watch out for jumping worms!

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pages 38-39

Beautiful Gardens: Doyle Piwniuk, Virden, Manitoba

5min
pages 50-54

How to get started

5min
pages 61-64

Time to split?

3min
pages 36-37

Instagrammable plants

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page 34

Composting primer

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page 35

Spruce, pine, or fir: How can you tell?

8min
pages 23-25

Patio or deck?

2min
pages 28-29

Proclaiming 2022 Canada’s Year of the Garden: A national movement to connect with plants

3min
pages 26-27

Two Olde Dawgs: Vegepod harvest

3min
pages 30-31

Tough houseplants that anyone can grow

4min
pages 32-33

Growing garlic

7min
pages 20-22

Big wasps

4min
pages 18-19

Wildflowers and weeds: Viper’s bugloss

1min
page 17

All about clematis

7min
pages 6-9

Rosemary

3min
pages 10-11

Improve your soil

4min
pages 12-13

The exotic bleeding hearts

5min
pages 14-16

Hello Canadian Gardeners

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