Yes- it's true: I have revamped my old blog and website and rolled them all into one place. If you have arrived thanks for checking me out! But please click on over to my new look, new page at ...
Hi Fans and friends - I have finally jumped on board and started a web page. This means all my blog content is moving there! Check out www.gardenguru.net A Stunning garden viewed at the GWA...
http://donnabalzer.blogspot.com/2013/02/moving-check-out-my-web-page.html
In huge news I am speaking at the Seattle Flower Show next week (Feb 23, 2013). Okay it is technically not the flower show it is the Northwest Flower and Garden Show (Gardenshow.com or tweet @NWF...
http://donnabalzer.blogspot.com/2013/02/straw-bale-gardening-messy-but-fun.html
When I was speaking to the Qualicum Beach Garden club last night I posed a question to the audience at the beginning of the talk. I didn't rush the process. I knew I was in the company of garde...
http://donnabalzer.blogspot.com/2013/01/deer-proof-vegetables.html
I have been following Michelena at her new Rocky Mountain Wreath workshop in Calgary, Alberta. Here is a little video I made of her and her staff hard at work for the Christmas season. Enjoy! P...
http://donnabalzer.blogspot.com/2012/12/making-rustic-wreath.html
It’s a common problem. Everyone thinks they are a designer. No one wants to be in maintenance. It’s just not sexy enough. It’s dirty fingernails versus dreamy figurines. And I ...
http://donnabalzer.blogspot.com/2012/11/tsk-tsk-you-really-should-clean-your.html
Brandywine tomato in my greenhouse this summer could have been even better if I had grown it grafted on to a hardy root stock. Everyone who has eaten a store bought tomato has eaten a ...
http://donnabalzer.blogspot.com/2012/10/grafted-tomatoes-scary-franken-fruit.html
Rudbeckia in front of Calamagrostis in Qualicum Beach are definitely deer proof. Perhaps I am a slow learner or maybe I just haven't taken the time to look around before now. Yesterday I r...
http://donnabalzer.blogspot.com/2012/10/more-deer-proof-plants.html
Thanks to Maureen for writing a guest blog for me this week. She was out in her garden yesterday, showing me all the seeds she has been collecting and I asked if she would share her knowledge to ...
http://donnabalzer.blogspot.com/2012/09/guest-post-seed-collecting.html
For those of you following the changes within my Herald Column this year I wanted to "conclude" with the final cartoon. Last friday was the final gardening article for 2012 and this is the f...
http://donnabalzer.blogspot.com/2012/09/gardening-put-to-bed-at-calgary-herald.html
When I am helping clients design their gardens they want to know precisely what the finished garden will look like. Most ask for low maintenance, long season of colour and interesting diver...
http://donnabalzer.blogspot.com/2012/08/julia-child-or-simple-farm-fare.html
Okay- what is pretty and green and wrapped in tissue? Bid for this No Guff Gift basket at Vancouver's Word on the Street In case you are wondering, this not-so-secret transparent package ...
http://donnabalzer.blogspot.com/2012/08/pretty-and-green-and-wrapped-in-tissue.html
TIMES COLONIST 17 Aug 2012 MY new friend Harry Burton (appleludcious.com) was very excited about the Apple festival he was planning for Sept 30, 2010 on Salt Spring Island. I noticed in the col...
http://donnabalzer.blogspot.com/2012/08/apple-crisis-in-salt-spring.html
One of my self-watered pots in Calgary In this hot summer my single biggest success was water- automatic water. My husband hooked up an irrigation system to my pots on my condo balcony in Ca...
http://donnabalzer.blogspot.com/2012/08/garden-success-garden-failures.html
Early in the summer this verbena was beautiful Yikes- this plant desperately needs deadheading but who has time for that? Yes I get a lot of free plants. No, I don't like them all. Somet...
http://donnabalzer.blogspot.com/2012/08/new-annuals-losers-winners.html
When I am speaking to an audience, I begin with a call for questions. And the number one question is always about deer. "Can you tell me about plants that are deer proof" someone asks. "No, I c...
http://donnabalzer.blogspot.com/2012/08/big-fat-squash-deer-resistant.html
I HELP GARDENERS GROW! Award winning journalist; television host (Bugs & Blooms); columnist on CBC radio and in the Calgary Herald; book author. Invite Donna Balzer to speak at your special event.
Look for the gardening section in the Calgary Herald.... where my article about "An Embarrassment of Riches- Harvest time in the garden... " is featured today. Check out the illustration for ...
http://donnabalzer.blogspot.com/2012/08/today-in-calgary-herald.html
Today's Calgary Herald featured my column BERRY PICKING FUN. Here is the illustration featured in it by Mariko McCrae (Feedlot Studios). If you missed the column you can read it in the Herald o...
http://donnabalzer.blogspot.com/2012/07/pick-prairie-hardy-fruits-or-plant-them.html
Dr Bob Bors chats up Haskaps Carmine Jewel Cherries almost ripe I am just flying home from Saskatoon. Not an unusual location and certainly not exotic but - seriously- this was one gr...
http://donnabalzer.blogspot.com/2012/07/hardy-fruits-conference-best.html
"Last summer you kindly visited my home and gave me some suggestions about redoing parts of the yard. Your ideas were quite compelling as I tried making changes one step at a time." said Elaine...
http://donnabalzer.blogspot.com/2012/07/successful-gardencoaching.html
I HELP GARDENERS GROW! Award winning journalist; television host (Bugs & Blooms); columnist on CBC radio and in the Calgary Herald; book author. Invite Donna Balzer to speak at your special event.
http://donnabalzer.blogspot.com/2012/07/floriade-blooms-and-lanscapes-video.html
Check out this little video I made on the street in Haarlem, NL yesterday. Yes- I am home from Floriade and will be posting bigger things soon - but this is a trial run! P.S. WE have already ...
http://donnabalzer.blogspot.com/2012/06/you-call-this-zucchini.html
I will be reporting in about Floriade on CBC radio- Alberta at Noon - as soon as I get home from Floriade in Holland on June 22, 2012. If you haven't heard of this premiere horticulture event l...
http://donnabalzer.blogspot.com/2012/06/report-from-floriade-in-holland.html
Yes my garden cartoon in the Calgary Herald is another fun addition to the body of work by Mariko McCrae and I - check it out in today's Herald. Here is a bit of a teaser - If you are building...
http://donnabalzer.blogspot.com/2012/06/what-would-donna-do.html