I’m lucky. I get to spend most mornings strolling through my garden, coffee in hand, admiring my plants and pulling weeds that dare to raise their unwelcome heads. I find that weeding regularly makes gardening less of a chore and it’s an effective way to stretch a little before breakfast as well.
But no matter how many weeds they’ve plucked, even veteren gardeners get stumped at times trying to determine what is, and what is not, a weed — particularly in the spring when everything is just beginning to peek out of the soil and your winter brain has wiped all your geographical gardening memories clean. “Is this where I planted a patch of Primrose or are these weeds that need to be annihilated?”
An audience of about 100 people, students, graduates, parks department people (including Steve Barnhart, Senior Director Parks, Environment & Culture for Niagara Parks), landscape architects, designers, and School staff heard a thought provoking and inspiring discussion from Michael Ormston-Holloway on …