I often receive questions that ask me to explain in detail how to care for specific perennials. While I am working on having a very large index of care information for specific plants it does take time to create this information. Now, even though I grew up in a family that gardened, I still found [...]
How are you keeping yourself busy this month? Have you been spending time thinking about your garden? Reading gardening magazines and books? If you’re like me you probably have a number of seed and plant related catalogues to read. I think mine started being delivered in the mail from late November onward. It’s too cold [...]
Here’s a a few handy gardening tips that you might find useful, particularly if you are new to gardening: 1. Do your homework. Visit public gardens, read magazines and books. 2. Amend the soil for success. Lighten clay loam soil with compost. 3. Design for surprise: place some curves in your design or interesting nooks [...]
