BLUEBERRY THRILL Plant up our 3-packs for an extended harvest

SMALL-SPACE GARDENING Consider the possibilities! Pond

Life!Expert tips on planting

a pristine water feature

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AbbotsfordFriday, June 24Cannor Club Members’ Customer Appreciation Evening – our members are invited to pre-shop our major sale of the season. Entertainment, refreshments and lots of great buys! 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Saturday, June 25 and Sunday, June 26Customer Appreciation Days – all weekend long! Everything is on sale! Try a cup of our organic fair-trade coffee – “our treat!” Regular store hours.

Saturday, June 25 to Monday, July 4Nursery Plastic Recycling Week – bring down your used plastic pots and flats and we will recycle them for you. Drop off from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Thursday, July 28 to Monday, August 1Watch for us at the Abbotsford Agrifair & Mighty Fraser Rodeo – at Abbotsford Exhibition Park.

ChilliwackSaturday, June 25 and Sunday, June 26Cannor Club Members’ Customer Appreciation Sale! – all weekend long. Regular store hours.

ParksvilleFor dates and details of our upcoming events, please check our store website, or request E-news updates by sending your email address to news@cannor.com.

Sears VictoriaFor dates and details of our upcoming events, please check our store website, or request E-news updates by sending your email address to news@cannor.com.

Victoria, Elk Lake We’re pleased to announce a number of workshops at our store – 4660 Elk Lake Drive, next to the Saanich Commonwealth Pool. Drop by the garden centre or send us an email at cannorclub@cannorvictoria.com or call 250-658-5415 to register.

Saturday, June 25Native Plants – Matt of Cannor Nursery. 10:30 a.m.

Saturday, July 9Cactus and Succulents – Don of Cannor Nursery. 10:30 a.m.

Saturday, July 16Pond Design: Waterfalls and Streams – Mike James of Wildwood Design. 10:30 a.m.

Saturday, July 23Carnivorous Plants – Nolan Gray of Wildwood Waterscapes. 10:30 a.m.

cannoR clUb plant pickBlueberry Trio Packs Offer an Extended HarvestExceptionally nutritious – with antioxidants, vitamin C, dietary fibre and manganese – blueberries are the ultimate healthy snack. What could be better

than a blueberry patch or hedge where your family can enjoy the sweet pickings? Cannor Nursery Stores are now offering Northern Highbush blueberry bushes in trios for an extended harvest season. Delicious ‘Reka’ is a very vigorous early-season berry, while popular ‘Bluecrop’ is ripe for eating mid-season and ‘Elliott’ is an autumn-bearing heavy producer.

And, in addition to the ongoing summer feasts, you will enjoy gorgeous burgundy-red foliage throughout the fall.

Sandy Mathies Janet Mathies President Vice-PresidentGord Nickel President, Cannor Nursery Victoria

For the enthusiastic gardener, small spaces can be a bit of a challenge.

Like most gardeners, you may be wishing for the variety of The Butchart Gardens but are confined to a small patio or plot of land. So how can you realize the garden you are hoping for?

When approaching the small space, look to vertical plantings and upright containers. Balcony railings are the perfect rigid frame to place multiple planters at different levels – if the railings were laid flat they would give you the equivalent of a four-foot-wide planting bed. And taller containers allow you to utilize the corners of your patio in a dra-matic way – plant them up with graceful ornamental grasses, berries, dwarf conifers, Oregon grape, brugmansia, phormium or mock orange. Lastly, don’t forget about hanging planters – they fit beauti-fully into just about any free space and you can fill them with fragrant herbs, flowers for vibrant colour, salad greens or hanging tomatoes – or a combination of all of these!

Yes, even a small-space garden can provide a wide variety of opportu-nities to grow what you love and, if well designed, will become a place where you will always wish to be.

Everyone knows there is nothing more restorative to the spirit than the sound and sight of water. But to fully enjoy the beauty of a pond, it is essential to include a healthy selection of aquatic plants. They create symbiosis in a pond’s eco-system while providing numerous benefits. When used in appropriate balance, a well-planted pond is much easier to maintain. In fact, it is the aquatic plants that enable you to appreciate an esthetic masterpiece in your yard – allowing you to fully enjoy

an exciting new type of gardening . . . water gardening!

Here are three key tips on how to balance your pond’s water quality while at the same time creating a visually appealing feature:

1. Cover at least 40 to 60 per cent of your pond’s surface area with plantlife. I know this sounds intimidating but it will prevent a myriad of issues related to photosynthesis and your water column. When the warmer weather brings the

inevitable and dreaded algae bloom, a healthy aquatic ecosystem is key to thwarting it!

2. Add tropical floaters such as water hyacinth (shown) or water lettuce during the summer months to maintain nutrient balance. A super-quick way to cover up some surface area, these amazing plants also absorb nitrates at an alarming rate.

3. If you are able to balance oxygenating pond plants such as elodea (shown) or parrot’s feather with your marginal plants and floaters, life is good! These plants create O2 while the other plants in your pond produce CO2. To maintain a balanced ecosystem, elodea or parrot’s feather remain crucial for any sort of sustainability. Remember, your pond is in constant reproduction. It is host to a daily battle for nutrients and oxygen by varying types of plantlife, bacterial growth and other biological species. Clearly, the key to maintaining balance in our ponds is to mimic Mother Nature and encourage a complex and thriving ecosystem. n

Water TherapyFEatUREFEatURE By Nolan Gray, Wildwood Waterscapes

Soothe your soul, support wildlife, and add beauty to your backyard with a perfectly planted pond

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SUMMER 2011

pRovEn WinnERS FoR oUtStanDinG blooMS!Perk up your summer garden with our gorgeous array of Proven Winners pre-planted containers, available at Cannor Nurseries now! Fast-growing and fabulous, they are the perfect pick-me-ups for gardens slow to get going after the chilly start to this year’s growing season. Simply water and fertilize and the blooms will keep on coming all summer long and well into fall. Choose one for your balcony or several to line your backyard deck or as a sensational way to fill in those empty spots in your garden beds. Just imagine combos like these on display on your own front porch!

The AvAnT GArde ColleCTion 1. Calibrachoa

Superbells® Saffron2. Solenostemon (coleus)

ColorBlaze® Dipt in Wine 3. Heliopsis (perennial

sunflower) ‘Tuscan Sun’

FlAminGo 1. Euphorbia Diamond Frost®2. Nemesia Innocence® Opal3. Phlox Intensia® Pink

CrowninG AChievemenT1. Euphorbia Diamond Frost®2. Petunia Supertunia® Pretty

Much Picasso®3. Ipomoea (sweet potato vine)

‘Sweet Caroline Light Green’

CAliForniA dreAmin 1. Angelonia (summer

snapdragon) Angelface® Blue

2. Calibrachoa Superbells® Dreamsicle

3. Petunia Supertunia® Bordeaux

4. Solenostemon (coleus) ColorBlaze® LifeLime

(Each of our stores may have a slightly varying stock of Proven Winners pre-planted containers. If the selections shown here are not available at your local Cannor Nursery Store, please just ask our staff to assist you in finding similar Proven Winners substitutions.)

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