Aug 31, 2022 | Container Gardening, DIY, Gardening, Planting Prep, Who We are
I’ve always been fascinated by espalier, or the technique of training trees to grow up against a flat surface like a wall or fence. This amazing space-saving technique that comes from the Old World European gardens, allowed people to not only decorate their...
Aug 18, 2022 | Composting, Container Gardening, DIY, Fall Season, Gardening, Native Plants, Planting Prep, Pollinators, Vegetables, Who We are, Wildflowers, Wildlife
The blog this week will be quite short, I’m afraid. I contracted COVID-19 (right around my birthday) and I haven’t been working in a couple of weeks. I’m not recovering as quickly as I want to be. But it doesn’t stop me from daydreaming about...
Aug 4, 2022 | Container Gardening, DIY, Education, Fall Season, Gardening, Landscaping, Planting Prep, Summer Season, Vegetables, Who We are
As we gear up for Fall Planting, we celebrate this blog’s 5th birthday (woohoo!!) – and my own birthday too – I wanted to bring you a review of some of our previous Fall Gardening articles that you might have missed. Also I wanted to offer a few...
Jul 20, 2022 | Container Gardening, Education, Fall Season, Food, Gardening, Planting Prep, Recipes, Summer Season, Vegetables
When it’s hot outside I spend time inside planning my next garden. As I get older, I find that the heat and I don’t get along all that well, and in fact if I get overheated I get migraines. Ugh. So, I settle in with my pencils, garden journal, and...
Jun 7, 2022 | Composting, DIY, Education, Fall Season, Food, Gardening, Landscaping, Lawn Care, Native Plants, Organic, Pest Control, Planting Prep, Spring Season, Summer Season, Vegetables, Winter Season
Fungus is a surprise we never like getting. It always seems to me that one day my plants are just fine. Then next…ewww…there’s stuff on my once pristine leaves and they’re turning yellow or brown. Fungus spreads by spores that float through...
Mar 31, 2022 | Bees, Birds, DIY, Education, Gardening, Landscaping, Native Plants, Planting Prep
Ornamental grasses, in my opinion are the unsung heroes in the landscape. They can serve so many functions, I can’t imagine a garden without them! The ornamental grass category are often overlooked and upstaged by the showy and crazy colors of the flowers that...
