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:

If Only They Could Talk . . . October 17, 2013
October gardening: Can plants really think?
A Spicy Story October 2, 2013
October gardening; Alliaria petiolata
Dinosaurs Romped Around the Ancestor of Tulip Tree October 2, 2013
October gardening: ‘King of Magnolias’
Fall Arrives & Some Final Garden Chores October 2, 2013
October gardening
Questions We’re Often Asked: Bulbs September 23, 2013
The simple rule is: the bigger the bulb, the better the blooms
An Array of Araceae September 2, 2013
September gardening
Discouraging Squirrels, Mice from Bulbs September 2, 2013
September gardening
Autumn Arrives with Fresh Air and Chores September 2, 2013
September gardening: Ignore the garden at your peril; weeding
Gardening: Therapy for the Bereaved – And Others August 7, 2013
August gardening: peace of mind that gardening can bring
Irradiation of Vegetables and Fruits August 7, 2013
August gardening: Good news certainly for many concerned consumers as well as billions of bacterium faced with the prospect of being fried by a blast of gamma rays
Poison Ivy Is a Rash Experience August 7, 2013
August gardening: Family Anacardiaceae
A Plant That Likes to Look Sheepish August 7, 2013
August gardening
Is Something Bugging You? August 1, 2013
August gardening
A Botanical Geography of Canada July 18, 2013
July gardening: Botanically, flora have made their mark in at least five lakes from Newfoundland to British Columbia
You Might Give a Fig July 7, 2013
July Gardening: The ornamental forms of the fig family
The Flower with Lips Like Mick Jagger July 7, 2013
July Gardening: Psychotria elata
The Seven Deadly Sins of Gardening July 4, 2013
July Gardening
A Baby, Bugs, Weeds, Exercise and Sins July 2, 2013
July gardening
To Pee or Not to Pee on the Garden June 22, 2013
June Gardening: The urea present in urine is a potent fertilizer
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon June 12, 2013
June Gardening: One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World...
Chelsea Centennial – A Blooming Success June 5, 2013
June Gardening: Chelsea Flower Show, guerilla gardening, Mahonia eurybraceata subsp, grapinensis, Oregano Grape
Impatiens Downy Mildew, Begonias, Watering June 1, 2013
June Gardening
Elderberry: Herb of the Year for 2013 May 16, 2013
May Gardening: Elderberry juice was believed to cure colds and coughs, bronchitis, and earache or, more harshly as a laxative, diuretic, or emetic
Summer Bulbs Brighten the Garden May 6, 2013
May Gardening: Asian lilies, Orienpets, begonias
Elderberry: Herb of the Year for 2013 May 3, 2013
May Gardening: National Herb Week
Mother’s Day, Lawns and more… May 1, 2013
May Gardening: “Candy is dandy but flowers have power,”
A Canadian Geographical Kitchen Garden April 22, 2013
April Gardening; beets, cauliflowers, chard, collards, endive, fiddleheads, melons, peanuts, peas, rhubarb, rutabaga
Royalty in the Garden April 11, 2013
April Gardening: C. viticella, C. texensis
The Quirky Quince April 2, 2013
April Gardening: Cydonia oblonga
Spring:  New, exciting and different April 1, 2013
April Gardening: Bloomerang, echinacea