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:

Railroaded in the Garden August 15, 2011
August gardening; Flowerbeds can be recreated using ornamental thyme
Nothing Runs Like a Raccoon August 8, 2011
August gardening: "Typhoid Marys" of disease
August:  A Caesar of a Summer August 1, 2011
August Gardening
Questions We Are Often Asked: Oncidium Orchids July 22, 2011
Temperatures that are comfortable for their human handlers are just fine for the Oncidium sold for home culture
Every Gnome Needs a Home July 9, 2011
Gnome Sweet Gnome
Weeds: If You Can’t Beat Them, Eat Them July 3, 2011
July Gardening
The Silly Season:  Happy Horticulture July 1, 2011
It is with some relief we turn to healthy horticulture and a look at what awaits us in the coming few weeks
New for You: Products for the Passionate Gardener June 23, 2011
Pruners, electric lawnmowers, Self-watering planters and more
A Rose Primer June 21, 2011
Roses often seem to act as magnets for every pest around.
Bunga Bunga Amongst the Bugs June 20, 2011
‘Phalloblaster": The device inflates the genitalia with a stream of pressurized alcohol to create the same shape as when the insect was alive.
Language of Flowers Gets Boost from Kate June 18, 2011
Victorian floral symbols
Peter Piper’s Peppers June 16, 2011
People are plain fascinated with peppers
Landscaping with Lucy Lawless June 12, 2011
The Xena actress and Greenpeace climate change ambassador is converting two of her four consolidated properties – with a total worth of more than $7 million – into a 1600-square-metre garden.
‘Pearls of Aphrodite’ All the Rage in Europe June 10, 2011
"White Caviar"
An Odiferous Araceae June 7, 2011
At the end of last April, an Amorphophallus titanium flowered at Basel Botanical Garden in Switzerland, attracting 10,000 visitors
Garden Weather:  Warm & Wet—Or Perhaps Dry June 3, 2011
This is an excellent time for repotting those houseplants that require new quarters.
New for You – Products for the Passionate Gardener May 28, 2011
BugFix, Wireless Sensor Systems, Living Fences
Questions We Are Often Asked: Growing Vegetables May 18, 2011
Location is everything
A Bouquet for Mother’s Day May 5, 2011
The Monday following Mother’s Day Sunday needn’t see send ups to that great green compost heap in the sky.
Mountain Pine Beetle Branches Out May 2, 2011
The iconic tree of the north, depicted by painter Tom Thomson on a windswept isle in Georgian Bay, is threatened by a creature not much larger than a pencil tip.
Gardening in the Merry Month of May April 30, 2011
Thinking on seasonal plants makes scents
New for You – Products for the Passionate Gardener April 30, 2011
Non-DEET Insect Protection Patch
Questions We Are Often Asked: Boston Ferns April 23, 2011
"How do you look after a fern?"
Hats Off to Heuchera April 19, 2011
The inhabitant from southern Ontario to Georgia, Oklahoma and into Michigan, with greenish-white flowers, yielded foliage brewed into a tea for the relief of diarrhea, piles, and gargled for sore throats
Right Royal Wedding Gardens April 12, 2011
Gardening at Buckingham Palace
Proper Plant Choice Can Help to Protect Your Home April 4, 2011
Gardening ideas to protect home from burglars
A Wet April Predicted by Meteorologists March 27, 2011
City Gardening
Sheridan’s Howard Stensson March 23, 2011
Howard Stensson, dead at the age of 98
Turbo Vegetables: Bigger, Better or Bunk? March 20, 2011
Bigger, better and tastier produce.
March Madness March 10, 2011
The 8th March is National Peanut Cluster Day that just happens to share the same with Be Nasty Day