Tutorials

  • What varieties of palm tree can you grow in Canada?

    Spoiler alert, palm trees cannot grow unprotected outdoors in Canada except for a couple notable exceptions. These exceptions include zone 8 areas ...

  • How to winterize Hardy Banana (Musa Basjoo) outdoors in hardiness zone 5+.

    The japanese fibre banana (Musa Basjoo) is the hardiness banana species of all. With a few simple steps, you can enjoy it's gigantic tropical folia...

  • How to overwinter your banana plants indoors.

    For most exotic gardeners in Canada, there are a few significant limitations when winterzing banana plants outdoors. The first, is that Musa Basjoo...

  • How to winterize cold hardy palm trees outdoors anywhere in Canada.

    As you probably already guessed, there is a reason why you don't see the streets in Toronto lined with coconut palms. Our cold winters in Canada ar...