Five Container Tips and Five Container Recipes

Five Tips For Happy Containers

Use sphagnum moss to retain moisture.
Planting in sun? Don’t use dark colored containers which soak up more heat. Use the largest containers to give your plants the best root growing environment. Larger containers look more impressive, too.
How you water is an extremely important part of container gardening. Use a [...]

Your Own French Potager

There are Kitchen gardens, and then there is the French potager. Like saying, there is cuisine, and then there is French cuisine. You may interpret the distinction in your own mind, but I think there is a subcategory that the French potager holds as all its own in the concept of kitchen gardens.
Just as [...]

Encouraging the Honeybees: Making a Bee Garden

The honeybee populations of the USA have been drastically diminishing [Learn about Colony Collapse Disorder], and though no one knows exactly why, one factor is less foraging. We gardeners can do something about that!
It is really important that you never use pesticides in your bee garden. They poison bees.
Starvation is currently considered to be the [...]

Winter Outlines Garden Bones

Winter is a stark time for most of us in a temperate climate. Doubly so when a fresh snowfall creates lines and shapes, filled in with snowy white. We then see our garden in silhouette, and all its features are outlined for us to better judge the proportions and dimensions of our larger plantings and [...]

The White Garden

Making an all white garden used to be quite a popular undertaking. Although the idea probably started, in modern gardening times anyway, with Gertrude Jekyll in her book, Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden, it was Vita Sackville-West who created the most famous white garden at Sissinghurst Castle. This garden was “designed to be at [...]

The Blue Garden

While color-themed gardens intrigue in the planning stages, they can be a bit difficult to pull off. One drawback is the self-limiting nature of it… there are so many plants that attract our attention and to reduce them to only one color is quite a task. Then, next, the color blue is not a common [...]

The Prairie Garden

Few of us will ever see a true prairie like the pioneers of old had seen, but we still have the plants, and many of those are ideal for the challenging conditions of drought.
Prairies are rare now, but some enthusiasts believe you can have a little piece of the prairie in even the smallest [...]

Garden Ornaments: To Have or Have Not?

Garden ornaments are a tricky topic. You are going to risk offending someone or another if you say something is tacky… and it is just your opinion, anyway, right? Well, though my own taste tends towards the garden of little and classic ornament, I have seen all sorts of flourishes done well.
From the Medicis [...]

Making a Fairy Garden

Wherever you decide to situate a fairy garden it may end up being as fun and entrancing as any miniature world of tiny houses and furnishings could be!

Containers of Flowers

Containers:

To Pretty Up Just About Anyplace

Creating your own brightly colored accents
Containers make eye catching focal points, or can even comprise an entire garden picture when grouped together. With the variety within the components of container style, size, and combination of plants the effects and uses are many. Container gardening has become increasingly popular due to [...]

The Cutting Garden

Like the Kitchen garden, and sometimes a part of it, the cutting garden is made in response to desire for fresh bouquets and flowers for arrangements. “Arrangements” sounds formal, like the professional florists art, and you may have that in mind, but many people just like to pick a bunch of flowers, stick them [...]

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The Kitchen Garden

 
Dreaming of succulent vegetables, fruits bursting with sweetness and juice, redolent herbs to spice up the cooking pot? Like many before you, a kitchen garden may be just what the doctor ordered, literally. With today’s emphasis on healthy eating of fresh fruits and vegetables, at least five to nine servings are recommended, what [...]

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The Herb Garden

An herb garden is a delight, learn more about how to incorporate herbs into your own landscape plan.

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A Serenity Garden -making a peaceful place

Garden Retreats
Any portion of a garden can become a place of peace and repose, and I think it is well worth making at least a spot in the garden a place of quiet and reflection. Better yet, creating a theme garden dedicated to a feeling of calm and relaxed enjoyment.

Many of the accouterments in making [...]

New American Garden Style

Lower Maintenance Gardening……..letting the ‘genius loci’ speak to you

While there are erudite books and articles on the topic, I will give you my own interpretation of how I see this style, especially as it is developing in popular gardening. Previously, if you read the components of xeriscaping, you likely read a bit about the New [...]

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