Can you help?
August 31st, 2004 by Kathy Purdy · 7 Comments
Just received an email from a woman who’s just moved to Manitoba. Is there anyone out there with experience gardening in a really cold climate that can help her? Post your answer in the comments.
“I have just moved to The Pas, Manitoba (Zone 1B) from southern Ontario (Zone 5B). I am looking to correspond with other northern gardeners to find out what kinds of perennials grow in this cold a climate. I may be able to get away with some Zone 2 or even very hardy Zone 3 plants. I’ve been walking around town and although I recognize some things, there are several other that look very pretty but I don’t know what they are. I am not forward enough to ring someone’s doorbell and ask.
Thanks for any help you can give.
Marion Jenkins”
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Kathy Purdy discovered the joys of writing in fourth grade, when she started corresponding with a former classmate. She's been writing letters ever since, first on looseleaf, then electronically, and now as weblog entries. That makes you, the blog reader, her pen pal. Her first independent (though frustrating) attempts at gardening were made in high school, though the gardening bug didn't bite hard until her mid-thirties, when she found herself mistress of a rural home on 15 acres. •
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7 responses so far ↓
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Christopher Barown
// Aug 31, 2004 at 2:17 pm
I found this on the web… I hope it is helpful.
http://www.geocities.com/PicketFence/4332/top.html
-chris
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Kathy
// Aug 31, 2004 at 5:46 pm
Glad to hear from you, Chris, and to learn of another website that helps cold climate gardeners. Thanks for providing that link.
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Marion Jenkins
// Aug 31, 2004 at 6:18 pm
Thanks Chris, this is what I am looking for. I will check it out.
Marion
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jenn
// Sep 2, 2004 at 9:50 pm
This may also be of some use:
The Renegade Gardener
Self proclaimed as: “RENEGADE GARDENER is the Web’s best site for gardeners living in Minnesota, the Dakotas, Wisconsin, Upper Michigan, and other states and Canadian Provinces banished to the forgotten USDA Hardiness Zones 2 through 4.”
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Kathy
// Sep 2, 2004 at 10:08 pm
I wrote up an entry on the Renegade Gardener quite a while back, but I forgot all about him when Marion emailed me. I wonder when he’s going to get around to providing an RSS feed? Yes, Marion, definitely check him out.
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Marion
// Sep 2, 2004 at 11:19 pm
Thanks, Jenn and Kathy, I looked at the site and it’s really interesting. I’ve bookemarked it with a number of other sites. My task this fall, if it ever stops raining long enough, is to clean out the flower beds as much as possible and figure out just what is in there among all the dandelions and quack grass. So far, I’ve found asparagus (well that wasn’t too hard since it’s shoulder height), day lilies, iris, an anemone (I think), dephiniums, mint, white geranium, and rhubarb. I also think there is an astilbe and something that looks suspiciously like St. John’s Wort although I didn’t think it grew this far north. Sorry, I’m not so good on the Latin names for things.
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Rose Gardening
// Sep 4, 2004 at 5:55 pm
There is a very interesting book on cold climate gardening.
I looked it up and found it at:
http://www.backwoodshome.com/store/files/fp7.html
Hope this helps!
Sandra