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Faux Firs

Christmas is on its way, so some of you might be looking for Christmas trees out in the bush or out at a farm. This means you might come...

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Buckwheat - Not Just for Pancakes

You might be familiar with buckwheat through breakfast foods and pancakes, but did you know that there are around 250 species of wild...

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Having a Field Day: Yellow Flag Iris

For past couple of weeks, the OSS team has been working on our Yellow flag iris eradication project along Eneas Creek in Summerland's...

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Problems with Yellow Flag Iris

Do you know what this is? Nope, it's not ginger or turmeric! Unfortunately this is just part of the extensive rhizome (underground stem)...

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Super Rhizomes

#funfactfriday Let's talk RHIZOMES: An important part of our grasslands that create alternate ways of reproducing and acquiring...

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Let's go into the field!

While out in the field, we often get the change notice the little things in nature that many people might not see at first glance. ...