Wes Porter
Wes Porter is a horticultural consultant and writer based in Toronto. Wes has over 40 years of experience in both temperate and tropical horticulture from three continents.
Most Recent Articles by Wes Porter:
Brussels Sprouts
December 16, 2017
Like parsnips, leeks and kale, Brussels Sprouts require a touch of cold to reveal their flavour
Norfolk Island Pine—Living Christmas Tree
December 9, 2017
Norfolk Island is part of Australia
AN APPETITE FOR THE FESTIVE SEASON
December 2, 2017
Questions We’re Often Asked: Mulch Ado
November 30, 2017
The perennials have now been put to bed. Come early spring, and it will be time to pull back away from the emerging crowns, discouraging slugs and snails from snacking on what they regard as a free salad bar.
The Gardens of Gwyn
November 19, 2017
Bougainvillea Named for French Admiral and Explorer
November 15, 2017
Louis-Antoine de Bougainville
Vegetative Vampires
November 8, 2017
Garden Chores: Indoors and outside
November 2, 2017
Gardening in November
The Caribbean’s Bird-Catching Trees
November 1, 2017
Up the Garden Path—October 2017
October 31, 2017
A compendium of some of the weird, wacky and wonderful horticultural happenings from the past month
Jack and the Beanstalk
October 29, 2017
Story of Jack Spriggins and the Enchanted Bean
Questions We’re Often Asked: Perennial Renewal
October 26, 2017
October is a good month for most of this work
An Apple a Day
October 21, 2017
Granny Smith, Macintosh, Delicious, Crab Apple, Snow Apples, Red Delicious, Gala, Golden Delicious, Granny Smith and Fuji
Seasonal Plant Superstitions
October 14, 2017
Kentia—A Palm for All Seasons
October 8, 2017
THANKSGIVING, HALLOWEEN GARDENING
October 1, 2017
Up the Garden Path
September 30, 2017
A compendium of some of the weird, wacky and wonderful horticultural happenings from the past month
Johnny Appleseed - Early American Nurseryman
September 23, 2017
Chapman also distributed medicinal herbs such as pennyroyal, catnip, horehound, rattlesnake root, wintergreen and mayweed
Goutweed by Any Other Name . . .
September 16, 2017
A Host of Golden Daffodils
September 9, 2017
RETAILERS ARE BURSTING WITH BULBS
September 2, 2017
Questions We're Often Asked: Planting Bulbs
Questions We’re Often Asked: Roses
June 30, 2017
Floribundas, Rose Shrubs, Grandifloras, Hybrid Teas
The Horticultural Alice
June 24, 2017
Centipedes and Millipedes
June 22, 2017
Both centipedes and millipedes are garden and even house-dwelling multiple-limbed arthropods. From a gardener's view point, there are few other similarities.
A Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose
June 15, 2017
Eleanor Roosevelt: "I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered," ..."But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalog: no good in bed, but fine up against a wall."
Are Genetically Engineered Petunias in Your Garden?
June 8, 2017
Debates about the labelling of genetically modified food are driven less by health concerns than by distrust of the agriculture industry's business practices
Questions We’re Often Asked: Berry-Bearing Shrubs
May 30, 2017
Anti-Ageing Herbs
May 27, 2017
Four genes that reprogram adult cells into embryonic-like stem cells can also reverse some signs of ageing
Raymond Burr: Orchid Grower and Vintner
May 20, 2017