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2024 December Cross Pollination

• Green for the Holiday: Christmas Fern
• December Monthly Garden ‘To-Do’ List
• You Say Tomato and I Say “Solanum lycopersicum”: Using Scientific Names
• Planning your 2025 Garden – Keep Your Bumblebees Buzzing
• Question of the Month – What to Grow Hydroponically?
• Garden Inspiration: Winter Sowing
• What’s Growing On (News and Events)

2024 November Cross Pollination

• Blossoms and Berries: The Versatile Common Elderberry
• November Monthly Garden ‘To-Do’ List
• Where Have All the Flowers Gone? Raising Awareness of Canada’s Native Plant Decline
• Who Stays When We ‘Leave the Leaves’
• Question of the Month: Poinsettias
• Garden Inspiration: Seeds of Wonder
• What’s Growing On (News and Events)

2024 October Cross Pollination

• Eastern White Pine: Tree of Biodiversity and Peace
• October Monthly Garden ‘To-Do’ List
• Pests, Diseases and Invasive Species
• After the Flood…
• We are Thankful                 
• Question of the Month: Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker
• Garden Inspiration: Thankful for Plants!
• What’s Growing On (News and Events)

2024 September Cross Pollination

• Prairie Coneflower – Mexican Hats or Ballerinas?
• September Monthly Garden ‘To-Do’ List
• Butterfly/Larval Host Plants
• From Master Gardeners Garden – Biodiversity
• 10 Ways for Gardeners to Protect Water Quality and Mitigate Extreme Weather                     
• Question of the Month: Parasitic Wasps
• Garden Inspiration: Asters: Keystone Plants & Beautiful!
• What’s Growing On (News and Events)

2024 August Cross Pollination

• American Hophornbeam (Ostra virginiana): Nature’s Tough Tree for Challenging Conditions by Janet Mackey, Halton Master Gardener
• Monthly Garden ‘To-Do’ List for August by Claudette Sims, Halton Master Gardener
• Saving an Oak Forest – From Bylaw Enforcement by Lorraine Johnson Honorary Halton Master Garden, Author and Cultivation Activist
• How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Garden Evolution by Allyn Walsh, Halton Master Gardener
• Myth: Goldenrod as a Source of Seasonal Allergies by Olga Marranca, Halton Master Gardener
• Question of the Month: Pests and Disease of Butterfly Milkweed by Hariette Henry, Halton Master Gardener
• Community events in August by Trish Moraghan, Halton Master Gardener

2024 July Cross Pollination

• Purple Prairie Clover / Dalea purpurea
  by Janet Mackey, Halton Master Gardener
• Monthly Garden ‘To-Do’ list
  by Claudette Sims, Halton Master Gardener
• Watering the Garden—Tips & Techniques for Thriving Plants
  by Sean James, Guelph Master Gardener
• Gardening Myths: Watering
  by Janet MacKey, Halton Master Gardener
• Question of the Month: Pruning Tomato Plants
  by Hariette Henry, Halton Master Gardener
• Garden Inspiration: Flower Flies
  by Alice Dabrowski & Dr. Andrew D. Young, University of Guelph
• What’s Growing On? News and Events

2024 June Cross Pollination

• Trumpeting Beauty: Hairy Beardtongue
  by Janet Mackey, Halton Master Gardener
• Monthly Garden ‘To-Do’ List
  by Claudette Sims, Halton Master Gardener
• BTK and Boxwood: Update
  by Janet Mackey, Halton Master Gardener
• The Dirt on Soap
  by Claudette Sims, Halton Master Gardener
• Native Perennials: Doing the Chelsea Chop
  by Allyn Walsh, Halton Master Gardener
• Question of the Month: Removing Goutweed
• Garden Inspiration: Rebecca McMacklin
• What’s Growing On (News and Events)

2024 May Cross Pollination

• Eastern Flowering Dogwood
  by Kevin Kavanagh, Guest Author
• May Garden ‘To-Do’ List
  by Claudette Sims, Halton Master Gardener
• Lily of the Valley–Lovely or Lethal
  by Pam MacDonald, Halton Master Gardener
• Cultivating Diversity: Book Review
  by Emma Murphy, Peterborough Master Gardener
• Question of the Month:  Re-using Potting Soil
  by Hariette Henry, Halton Master Gardener
• Garden Inspiration: Container Gardens for Native Plants
• What’s Growing On? News and Events

2024 April Cross Pollination

• Golden Alexander
  by Sundaura Alford-Purvis, Guest Author
• April Garden ‘To-Do’ List
  by Claudette Sims, Halton Master Gardener
• A Troublesome Trio
  by Pam MacDonald, Halton Master Gardener
• The Priority of Rethinking Pretty
  by Kirsten McCarthy, Halton Master Gardener
• Question of the Month: Native Grasses for Privacy
  by Hariette Henry, Halton Master Gardener
• Garden Inspiration: Gardeners Making a Difference
• What’s Growing On? News and Events

2024 March Cross Pollination

• The Mystical and Medicinal Hawthorn Tree
  by Pam MacDonald, Halton Master Gardener
• March Garden ‘To-Do’ List
  by Claudette Sims, Halton Master Gardener
• Successfully Growing Ranunculus and Anemone
  by Liza Drozdov, Halton Master Gardener
• Exploring Peat and Coir Part 2
  by Janet Mackey, Halton Master Gardener
• With Spring Comes Hope and Gratitude
  by Pam MacDonald, Halton Master Gardener
• Question of the Month: Why Seeds Don’t Germinate
  by Hariette Henry, Halton Master Gardener
• Garden Inspiration: Ready… Set… Sow!
• What’s Growing On? News and Events

2024 February Cross Pollination

• Balsam Fir—Abies balsamea
  by Pam MacDonald, Halton Master Gardener
• February Garden ‘To-Do’ List
  by Claudette Sims, Halton Master Gardener
• New Plants from Old
  by Allyn Walsh, Halton Master Gardener
• Exploring Peat and Coir Part 1
  by Janet Mackey, Halton Master Gardener
• Question of the Month: Seed Types
  by Hariette Henry, Halton Master Gardener
• Garden Inspiration: Winter Wonders
• What’s Growing On? News and Events

2024 January 2024

No issue in January. Happy Holidays!