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    Planting Paperwhites for the Winter Season

    October 15, 2020October 15, 2020

    Creating a paperwhite planter for your home is a fun and easy project to do. What you’ll need: Crushed glass, pebbles, or rock A container or vase to put your bulbs in A pack of paperwhite bulbs Water 1 Pour your rock, crushed glass, or pebbles into your container or vase. Keep in mind the

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    Mastering Your Home Style with Carlson Interior Design (and Plants!)

    October 14, 2020October 14, 2020

    If you’re like me, you love browsing Pinterest creating inspiration boards of all your rooms. You want your home put together without it feeling staged, to have little touches around that make your space cozy and comfortable – but you’re not quite sure how to get there. I’m thrilled to introduce you to Janelle Carlson

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  • Indoor Plants

    We’ve been featured in Redfin’s recent article “Indoor Plant Care: 19 Common Mistakes Beginners Make”!

    September 9, 2020September 9, 2020

    Indoor plants are the home décor staple that will never go out of style. They are beautiful, vibrant elements that can make any room spring to life. But for many, the biggest challenge is caring for them properly. To help out new plant owners as they begin to decorate their home, Redfin reached out to

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  • Indoor Plants

    Easy Tropicals for First Time Plant Parents

    July 22, 2020July 23, 2020

    If you’re just starting your very first plant collection, these are the easiest tropicals that I recommend in my greenhouse to first time houseplant customers. One of my personal favs; ZZ Plants require almost no care and boast luscious, shiny green leaves. They can handle dark areas of the house and minimal watering (like water

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    Indoor Succulent Care

    November 7, 2019November 7, 2019
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  • Growing Plants

    Why your plants need drainage

    October 27, 2018November 20, 2018

    One of the most frequent pieces of advice we offer our customers and want to share with you is the idea of drainage for your plants. We’re focusing specifically in this video on drainage for plants in containers. The best way to explain drainage is to actually show it in action. And to start we’re

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  • Indoor Plants

    Why You Need to Care for Your Indoor Plants Differently in the Winter

    November 7, 2016November 3, 2017
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  • Indoor Plants

    How To Care For Your New Orchid

    March 17, 2016November 3, 2017

    YAY!!!! Our very first video blog post!! I’m so excited!!! Watch this video to learn how to care for your new orchid.  

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    How to Propagate a Pothos Plant

    January 24, 2016July 23, 2020

    Using an empty soap bottle (triple rinsed) or any decorative bottle, start your very own Pothos plant. Start new plants easily for gifts for family or friends, or to have in your home or office. Pothos plants are great air purifiers for any indoor environment. Cut off a piece of your Pothos so that you’ll

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    There's a term in the greenhouse industry called " There's a term in the greenhouse industry called "dipping" and it's the act of submerging plants in a bath of water with a mixture of nematodes (nematodes are like a little worm) and two specific strains of fungus.⁠
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Dipping is very important to our plants because it offers us the ability to protect our plants, making sure that we're not contaminating our greenhouse with any pests coming in on rooted plants in trays.⁠
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The process of dipping is an extra step and expense in the world of growing plants, but it's so effective. It’s a step we feel we can never skip.⁠
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It's all these little things that we do that makes us happy knowing we're growing a better plant for you.
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😷 Masks are mandatory by the Alberta Government⁠⁠
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    👋🏻 Hey everyone, I'm back! I took a hiatus o 👋🏻 Hey everyone, I'm back! I took a hiatus over the last month because I've been so busy.⁠⁠
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Growing season is intense - I call it my focus season, and it's like running a marathon.⁠⁠
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✅ We've been super productive (well the greenhouse crew has; I personally run around all day checking on the plants. From the outside I look like I'm wandering around lost).⁠⁠
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🌱 We've seeded and transplanted close to 100,000 plants so far and my job is to watch them closely. I watch their colouring, I watch to see how strong they are, and I watch for disease or pest issues.⁠⁠
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👟 Right now, I'm putting in between 10000-12000 steps a day and I've been up and down a ladder about 800 times so far this season. And that's just me, not including the rest of the greenhouse team.⁠⁠
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Over the next few months we'll be sharing some behind the scenes greenhouse'y stuff that we've never released before!⁠⁠
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❔ Okay, enough about me! What have you been up to this past month?⁠⁠
    Did you know that we buy different bugs and scatte Did you know that we buy different bugs and scatter them/dip plants in them to control the pests that we don’t want in the greenhouse? 

Can you spot our little wasp? (Swipe over to see if you found it!). 

This little wasp is harmless to humans, her main goal is to find aphids, sting and lay an egg inside of them. The infected (parasitized) aphid will grow the next generation of wasp for us and by doing so dies and becomes a mummy. 

Eventually the new wasp will chew a perfectly round hole out the back of the aphid and fly off. 

Nature is beyond cool.
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