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Sigrie Kendrick

Sigrie Kendrick

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Low maintenance gardening

Would you like to spend less time maintaining your garden and more time enjoying it? Flowering shrubs are the workhorses of the garden, offering...

19.06.2025 20

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Sigrie Kendrick

Perennial plants of the year

Interested in starting your xeriscape journey—or carrying it on? Between garden renovations and enthusiastic propagation by volunteers, OXA still...

05.06.2025 3

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Not all bugs are bad

A majority of the insects you see in your garden don’t harm plants and are, in fact, “beneficials” because they benefit your garden by improving...

22.05.2025 10

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Importance of water

Our stunning Okanagan Valley, with its sparkling lakes and semi-arid climate, faces an increasingly-precarious water future. Despite being surrounded...

08.05.2025 10

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Put your garden in the red

We all have favourite colours, even though all colours are favourites in garden flowers and they all “go together” like nowhere else. One of my...

24.04.2025 10

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Made in the shade

Finding plants that thrive in dry shade is one of gardening's most formidable challenges. These difficult spots are often located beneath mature trees...

10.04.2025 20

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Start to spring in the garden

The Okanagan Xeriscape Association celebrated the official start to spring with the first Dig with Sig volunteer event recently in the greenhouse, as...

27.03.2025 10

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Adding up signs of spring

It may not officially begin until March 20, but I’m already delighting in the unofficial signs of spring, starting with the snowdrops that have...

14.03.2025 10

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