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...
As I write this it is late October, and one of the best times to find garden bargains if you hurry out to your local nursery or order from your favorite online catalog. If you don’t mind less than...
Do you love daffodils? Tulips? All the flowers of spring? Or chrysanthemums? Daylilies? Which of these flowers makes your heart beat a little faster just looking at them? You can stretch the bloom season...
Trees are an incredibly important part of a landscape in the part of the world where I live- as they are in so many. They are one of the first things I notice when traveling to a new region. “What...
Is there such a thing as maintenance free gardening? No. Is there such a thing as easy gardening? No. Is gardening hard physical labor? Sure is…. so why do it? Why expend all that effort?
Because...
Many of my specimen evergreen trees started out as our living trees for Christmas celebrations. It is a bit of work, you can’t keep them indoors very long, but instead of throwing away a tree, you...
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...
Sometimes you can learn from garden failures, and since I have had a lot of experience with that… you can probably learn a lot from me! Sure, everyone wants to see the successes and vicariously ride...
One of my favorite vines for sheer abundance of frothy bloom. When it is in full bloom starting at the end of August, the entire yard is filled with a clean soapy scent. Abuzz with little bees and adorned...
First of all, I love tulips, and one of my sayings is that they are “the lipstick of the garden”. Tulips just brighten up the visage of the spring garden in a way that no other of the plants...
Time to think of the autumn phase of the garden already. When we picture autumn we picture the trees ablaze with color here in the Midwest, and in the Northeast of the USA, but there are other players...
If I was reduced to ten plants around which to plan the gardening season, which would I choose?
This post is based on the one I wrote for my blog, but I think I would stand by the thoughts written in 2004.This...