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:

Cutting the Blarney: What Is Shamrock? March 16, 2013
March Gardening: A Dictionary of Plant Lore
Feast of the Flowers March 13, 2013
March Gardening: Cornus florida,Juan Ponce de Leon, Weigela florida, nomenclature, taxonomists
Horticultural Hot Beds Perfect for Propagation March 11, 2013
March Gardening: Anthony Huxley, Allmynack, Agricola
March:  A Month of Leeks, Shamrocks and Lilies March 2, 2013
Cock-a-leekie soup, Porrophagus, garlic, horticulture
Questions We’re Often Asked February 18, 2013
Basics of Fertilizer Indoors
What’s in a Flowery Name? February 18, 2013
February Gardening: The Edwardian era as the heyday of flower names for girls
Barely Wine from Australia February 10, 2013
February Gardening: A Hedonist in the Cellar, vinitor, viniculture, Black Sea, Ambrose Congreve,
Viva La Difference – Orthoptera Style February 6, 2013
February Gardening: Orthopteran bush cricket
Gift plants for the Year of the Snake February 2, 2013
Yellow-flowering orchids or cactus
Making an Ash of Themselves? January 21, 2013
Chalara fraxinea, ash dieback
A Century of Sheridan Nurseries January 10, 2013
January Gardening
Indoor Plant Care, Outdoor Chores January 2, 2013
January Gardening
Horseradish Tree Stimulates Additional Interest December 22, 2012
December Gardening: The drumstick tree
Prince Harry’s Chelsea Garden: Like Father, Like Son? December 5, 2012
Sentebale, Forget me not
Gifts of the Magi: Two Out of Three Were Plant-Derived December 4, 2012
Commiphora gileadensis
Horticulture for happiness, study discovers December 2, 2012
December Gardening
Questions We’re Often Asked: Money Plants November 23, 2012
Malabar Chestnut, Seven Leaf Tree, Silver-leaved Mountain Gum
Monsanto’s Genetically Modified Corn Deadly? November 14, 2012
November 2012 City Gardening
Keep Planting: The World Isn’t Going to End Next Month November 12, 2012
The fuzzy realms of pseudoscience
Super Foods: Are They or Aren’t They? November 5, 2012
Red Wine, Raspberries, Strawberries, Pomegranate, Oregano, Olive Oil,
A Busy Month for Northern Gardeners November 1, 2012
City Gardening
Across the Pond: A Loon s View of English Gardening October 16, 2012
Bungleaucrats
Questions We re Often Asked: What to do with Your Giant Pumpkin October 9, 2012
October Gardening: The pumpkin is an American icon
Environmentally Friendly Lawn Mowers October 3, 2012
Goats can clear as much as half an acre every three days at no cost to taxpayers.
Lawns, Mulches, Fall Care of Roses, Pruning, and More October 1, 2012
Gardeners Prepare: Get the wind up for Winter
Questions We’re Often Asked: Bromeliads August 25, 2012
August gardening
Covering Lawns with Decks and Patios Increases Flooding August 21, 2012
August gardening: Turf is an environmental plus.
Darwin’s Gooseberries August 20, 2012
August gardening
Cereus giganteus, the Saguaro Cactus August 18, 2012
August gardening: “Cactus rustlers”
Edward Lear Bicentennial Year August 16, 2012
August Gardening