Make a Fairy Garden -Inspiration

Posted in Featured Articles, garden theme After getting the basic fairy garden components together, perhaps you would like a little more inspiration. Here are some pictures and resource ideas to ignite your imagination and inspire your own fairy garden. Scan down the page for plant suggestions Everything you want to know to start a Fairy Garden- link. All the steps to make your own fairy garden, the place, the plants, and the...
read more

Victorian Gardens

Posted in Featured Articles, Garden Research, garden design The History: The Victorian Age lasted over a long period and holds an evolution of style, but there are characteristics that stand out among Victorian gardens, just as there are in Victorian architecture and costume. This was a time when plant exploration came into its own. The middle class expanded with an accompanying barrage of tastemakers, opining on everything from manners to interior...
read more

Favorite annuals…Container by container

Posted in Featured Articles, annuals, color, containers [Part One] [Part Two] I love annuals. So much so, that it is a daunting task to try to profile all my favorites. As I was planting up my containers, it occurred to me that highlighting those I was combining in my pots and baskets would be an ideal way to group some of those favorites together. Each year available plants vary in the garden centers, these ideas give some easy suggestions, while...
read more

Outside My Window: A Look Into Garden

Posted in Featured Articles, garden design, garden theme My favorite garden author, Helen Van Pelt Wilson, had an intensely planted space she called her “Look Into” garden. Looking through a large casement window in her kitchen, she viewed this little plot of a garden every day. It existed purely for the pleasure of something pretty to look at on a daily basis. As we grow older and desire less overall work, this sort of garden gains...
read more

Five Container Tips and Five Container Recipes

Posted in Featured Articles, containers 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 good potting soil, water often. Choose plant...
read more

Your Own French Potager

Posted in Featured Articles, garden design, veggies 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 we have come to appreciate the special inflection of the Cottage garden in feeling and...
read more