Pumpkins Results

GPC Pumpkin Results by Weight WEIGHT SITE FIRST NAME LAST NAME TOWN PR/ST =============================================================================== 1006.0 Ottawa Bill Greer Picton ON 941.0 Ottawa Al Eaton Richmond ON 940.0 Ottawa Pete Geerts Arkona ON 897.5 Carnation Jack LaRue Tenino WA 897.0 Ottawa […]

The World Champion Pumpkin List

The World Champion Pumpkin List YEAR GROWER PLACE WGT 1979 Howard Dill Windsor, NS 438.5 *1980 Howard Dill Windsor, NS 459.0 *1981 Howard Dill Windsor, NS 493.5 1982 Howard Dill Windsor, NS 445.0 1983 Owen Woodman Falmouth, NS 481.0 *1984 […]

Windsor Pumpkin Festival – October 5, 1996

  Windsor Pumpkin Festival – October 5, 1996 – NEWS RELEASE – GIANT PUMPKIN GROWERS SET FOR 12TH ANNUAL WINDSOR PUMPKIN FESTIVAL   WINDSOR – A Giant pumpkin growers from the Atlantic Provinces, and perhaps a few from outside the […]

Simple Water Pond Design

20 plants to use around this simple water garden design. 1. Myosotis scorpioides, forget-me-not 2. Astilbe Peach Blossom 3. Vinca minor-underplanting azaleas 4. Lobelia cardinalis, cardinal-flower 5. Hernerocallis Hyperion (day-lily) 6. Aruncus sylvester, goats-beard 7. Caladium, bicolor hybrids 8. Iris […]

Trough Alpine Gardening

Listing of Alpine Plants and how to use::   THEME TROUGHS A great source of pleasure to me, is to design and plant out “Theme” troughs. There are many hundreds of theme ideas if you use your imagination.What about: Plants […]

Where to use a tree

Where to use a tree   TREES OF RAPID GROWTH DECIDUOUS Magnolia grandiflora (South) Magnolia Populus alba Bolleana (Narrow Street) White Poplar Populus nigra italica (Narrow Street) Lombardy Poplar Platanus acerifolia London Plane Tree Quercus borealis (Q. rubra) Red Oak […]