Annabelle Hydrangea and its family members (hydrangea arborescence) are very popular shrubs here in Manitoba. We would technically call them a perennial shrub as you do need to prune off the dead frozen tips each year, similar to a perennial like a peony or daylily.
Rebecca Kornelson, the grand daughter of Mennonite Heritage Village (MHV) founder John C. Reimer muses about the 150th anniversary of the Mennonites arrival in Manitoba.
It’s easy to be skeptical about a lot of things these days. Promises of quick solutions, whether in the political world or the commercial world rarely deliver as advertised.
This time I’m giving you the good news first: the Northern Gold Forsythia is a beautiful, yellow flowering bush that is fully hardy.
It is almost 150 years ago that Mennonites started formally leaving Imperial Russia for Canada.
Spring in Manitoba brings many long-awaited things. The most notable for all Manitobans is warming of the weather and the ability to be outside more.
“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never harm me” is an age old saying that is proving to be incorrect. The more apt saying would be the one coined in 1839 by English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton, “the pen is mightier than the sword.”
March was another busy yet exciting month, as my fellow MLAs and I gathered for a new session in the Manitoba Legislature.
Hello, fellow wayfarers! It has been a wonderful, busy five years for me as Executive Director of Mennonite Heritage Village (MHV). Unfortunately, my time here at MHV has come to a close.
Last week Manitoba’s NDP Premier surprised some observers by stating it was a priority of his new government to change the prayer that begins each legislative sitting day at the Manitoba Legislature.
