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:

Richters 2009 Herb Catalogue & McFayden Spring ’09 Catalogue February 16, 2009
Catalogues Received
Friday, 13th February, Scares Paraskavidekatriphobics February 13, 2009
Gardening for Children
Saturday, 14th February – Saint Valentine’s Day February 9, 2009
Gardening for Children
Bicentenary of Birth of Charles Robert Darwin February 9, 2009
Evolution – A Great Solution
February Gardening February 2, 2009
Landscape Ontario Annual Congress and Trade Show
Monday, 2nd February – Groundhog Day February 2, 2009
Gardening for Children
Grimo Nut Nursery 2009 Catalog January 18, 2009
Nuts, Nuts, Nuts!
Chinese Year of the Ox and Gifts of Citrus January 11, 2009
Gardening for Children
January Gardening January 4, 2009
Why does Ontario have blizzards while B.C. has David Suzuki? – Ontario had first choice.
Filling Space July 27, 2008
Children’s Gardening, growing food in space
Oooo! That Wascally Wabbit! July 20, 2008
Repellents, barriers and resistant perennials, keeping rabbits at bay
DIY Pesticides & Repellents July 13, 2008
Natural home made Insecticides , pesticides, repellents
Not much on the gardener’s mind or elsewhere July 6, 2008
Children’s Gardening: Briar Rose June 30, 2008
Roses, brambles, briars
A Green Choice for the Environmentally Concerned June 22, 2008
Composted Gardener
The Tunguska Tree Termination June 15, 2008
Greatest explosion in recorded history
Gardener, Spare That Lawn! June 8, 2008
POOR FOR PARASKAVIDEKATRIPHOBICS GOOD FOR GARDENERS June 1, 2008
June is for Roses
So You Want to Start a Vegetable Garden? May 25, 2008
Children’s Gardening
Catalogue Review: Vineland Nurseries May 18, 2008
Dwarf firs, false cypress, spruce, pines, white cedar and Canadian eastern hemlock
The natural way to pest control May 11, 2008
A view of what's new
May gardening May 4, 2008
Bedding Plants, annuals, perennials
Trough Garden with Rock Stars April 22, 2008
What's New in Gardening
VIA’s Garden Route now includes Communities in Bloom destinations April 15, 2008
VIA Rail Takes You Down the Garden Path
Boring Beetles and Other Aliens April 8, 2008
Children’s Gardening
April gardening April 1, 2008
Spring garden and lawn work
Moore Water Gardens March 23, 2008
Port Stanley, Lake Erie
The Sweet Month of March March 16, 2008
Children’s Gardening
Good Friday’s Auspicious and Inauspicious Plantings March 9, 2008
Planting Potatoes, Parsley, Rosemary
March Gardening March 2, 2008
Canada Blooms, International Home and Garden Show