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Garden Gate: Episode 21-Suet and Peanut Feeders

Fatball Feeder Ring

CHEX TV air date: Fri. Sep. 20th, 2013 Click here to view this episode of ?The Garden Gate. Blue Jays, woodpeckers, chickadees, nuthatches and many other birds love peanuts and suet.? Even cardinals! The peanuts and suet give them the extra carbohydrates they need to stay warm through the long winter nights. There are a […]

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Garden Gate: Episode 19 – Butterfly gardens at The Ecology Park

Monarch Butterfly

CHEX TV air date: Fri. Aug. 23rd, 2013 Click here to view this episode of ?The Garden Gate. ? We visited The Ecology Park to talk with the manager Marcy Adzich about butterflies and how to build gardens for them and to attract them to your back yard. It was an eye opener! ? This […]

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Garden Gate: Episode 17 – A visit to Blossom Hill Nursery

Delphinium

CHEX TV air date: Fri. July 26th, 2013 Click here to watch this episode of?The Garden Gate.?? Blossom Hill Nursery is a stunning garden just outside of Peterborough in Fowler’s Corners that many locals don’t know about! Filled with one of the largest collections of peony’s and delphiniums in Ontario, it’s a place gardeners and […]

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Garden Gate: Episode 16 – Sun protection in the Garden

Garden Hat

CHEX TV air date: Fri. July 12th, 2013 Click here to watch this episode of?The Garden Gate. ? Summers in Ontario can be pretty intense. We seem to go from cool wet springs right into hot humid and very sunny days. As gardeners we tend to love to spend long days working in the garden […]

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Garden Gate: Episode 15 – A visit to Gardens Plus a member of Garden Route

Humpback Whale

CHEX TV air date: Fri. Jun. 28th, 2013 Click here to view this episode of The Garden Gate. Abba dabba do, Alakazam, Blueberry muffin, Dance with me, Holy Mouse Ears…..these words don’t sound like they have anything in common…but they do! In June I visited with Dawn Golloher of Gardens Plus just outside of Peterborough.? […]

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Dog Bite Steel artist from Uxbridge

Dog with Bone

If you’ve been in?our shop or perused our website, you’ll know that we carry A LOT of works by Canadian artists. Here is some information on one of my favourites! Click on the link below to watch a video of the artists. Dog Bite Steel is a business from Uxbridge with works by Jean Pierre […]

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Garden Gate: Episode 14 – Attracting Butterfly’s to your garden

Butterfly Weed

CHEX TV air date: June 14th, 2013 Click here to watch this episode of?The Garden Gate.Brightly colored butterflies and moths can be a welcome addition to your wildlife garden, not only because of their beauty, but also because of their usefulness in pollinating flowers. Attracting butterflies and moths involves incorporating plants that serve the needs […]

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Garden Gate: Episode 13 – Why are the birds not feeding from my feeder?

Birds at a Feeder

CHEX TV air date: Fri. May 31st, 2013 Click here to watch this episode of ?The Garden Gate. During prime finch feeding season, almost weekly I have customers coming in to purchase a new feeder because they?ve lost their finches. Initially when they put up their feeder they get lots of finches but at a […]

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