Gardening
Types of Plant Beds and Borders for Your Garden Landscape
Beds and borders fall loosely into four categories: single, herbaceous, shrub and mixed. The style of border you choose for your landscape may well depend on the amount of time you have available for planting and maintenance. Single Theme Borders Single plant or theme borders…
Tips for Gardening with Children
If you have a child in your life who’s interested in growing plants, make a space in the garden for him or her to explore the wonder of helping things grow. Instill a sense of ownership by providing a child-size watering can and tools, and…
Landscaping Ideas: Making a Beautiful Garden Terrace
Summertime is the season when a terrace comes into its own. Your patio may be part of a bigger landscape, or a paved courtyard may be all you have. Whatever its surroundings, an area of brick or stone paving, gravel or decking can become a…
Landscape Design: Learn About Elegant Espaliers
To practice the centuries-old art of espalier, start with the right plant and train it to lie flat against a wall or fence,with its branches forming a selected pattern. Pears and apples are easy to train in a variety of patterns, but other woody plants…
Landscape Design: Adding Rock Plants to Your Garden
Rock Garden Basics Since the original habitats of many species are mountainous and rocky regions, they are for the most part hardy and can tolerate thin, stony soils, and some can survive drying winds. Provided their natural habitat’s good drainage is imitated, many rock plants…
How to Build a Timber Retaining Wall
If you want to hold back a bank or keep a slope from slipping, a retaining wall is what you need. Big timbers and elbow grease can do the job cheaper and easier than working with poured or block concrete. The colour and texture of…
Automobile
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Ford Mustang GT Manual
The arrival of the 2016 GT350 made the Mustang GT the middle child of the family overnight. We praised, doted on, and rewarded the GT350, giving it two 10Best Cars awards. But we will admit that its exotic-sounding 8250-rpm 5.2-liter V-8 made us a little neglectful of the…
Buick LaCrosse eAssist Hybrid
Electrification is perhaps the automotive buzzword today, but General Motors has been offering various hybrids for more than a decade. The Buick division launched its first such vehicle back in 2012: the LaCrosse eAssist, a hybrid version of its large sedan that continued through the 2016 model…
Porsche 911 Carrera T
This is a place of legends, where the best drivers ever have done their best work and where the ultimate driving gauntlet is thrown down every January. It’s the most infamous, daunting, and exposed stage on the Rallye Monte-Carlo, and it’s called Col de Turini….
Buick Regal Sportback
Flashback to 2009: Despite offering just two sleepy sedans and one three-row crossover, Buick survived General Motors’ bankruptcy-related restructuring wherein the company euthanized nearly half of its brand portfolio. Buick was then charged with expanding into new segments to fill the chasm between Chevrolet and…