The best, most garden-worthy hardy Geranium you can grow. Violet-blue flowers late spring into fall. Virtually disease and pest free! Read more…
Garden Plant Profile: Hardy Geranium ‘Rozanne’
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Help! What Should I Do When there Is A Frost Or Freeze Warning?
Did you plant your garden early this year because the weather is so mild? I did! This afternoon, and I was expecting this, I got an email from the Weather Channel saying we should expect a “hard freeze” tonight… Don’t panic… there is good news! There are simple things you can do to save your […] Read more…
Frost-free Dates Are Different Than Your Hardiness Zone
Your Last Spring Frost and First Fall Frost Dates differ from your Hardiness Zones, they’re are two distinctly different things. Both are extremely valuable to know in achieving success in your garden. Last Spring Frost and Fist Fall Frost Dates: What It Means To You Native plants grow naturally and without problem where climate conditions […] Read more…
Food Growing Summit for Gardeners Encore Day!
I spent each day this past week tuned into the Home Grown Food Summit. There were a lot of wonderful speaker/presenters on a large range of topics pertaining to beginning and intermediate home gardeners and small farms. It was certainly worth the time investment listening to 37 specialty speakers on topics. While the summit is […] Read more…
Quiz: What Do You Know About Chimney Swifts? They’re Not Bats!
A bird best identified by silhouette, the smudge-gray Chimney Swift nimbly maneuvers over rooftops, fields, and rivers to catch its food. Its tiny body, curving wings, and stiff, shallow wingbeats give it a flight style as distinctive as its fluid, chattering call. This enigmatic little bird spends almost its entire life airborne. When it lands, […] Read more…
Home Grown Food Summit for Gardeners and Small Farms
Are you planning on watching the awesome training presentations in the Home Grown Food Summit going on this week? I am! You have the chance to get free training from 38 experts on how to grow your own food and medicine (one of the single best things you can do to reduce your dependence on […] Read more…
How To Plant and Grow Garlic
Fall is the time to plant garlic which you will harvest next June or July. Both the planting and harvesting of garlic is super-easy and something you will want to do every year since nothing tastes better and stays fresh longer than garlic that you grow yourself. I usually pop the garlic cloves in the […] Read more…
Using Landscape Fabric to Make Paths: a Good Idea or Bad
I think marketers of landscape fabric have convinced everyone to believe that the act of purchasing and putting landscape fabric down in flower beds, around foundation plantings, and as an underlayment for garden paths, will stop weeds and that it will also keep pea gravel from getting smushed into the earth due to foot traffic. […] Read more…
It’s Time To Plant: Bloodroot, Sanguinaria canadensis
Our beloved, early spring blooming, native wildflower Sanguinaria canadensis “Bloodroot” is now upon the perfect time of year for planting. Bloodroot gets its name from when a break in the surface of the plant, especially the roots, reveals a reddish, blood-like sap. Bloodroot was once used as a dye and as an herbal remedy by […] Read more…
Span the seasons with trees, shrubs and grasses that offer color and texture in abundance
Wonderful article written by Karen Chapman on Great Garden Combo: A Fall Landscape Scene That Lasts. Karen beautifully covers the steps and details necessary for anyone to create beautiful garden vignettes. She also has a new book titled Fine Foliage with Christina Salwitz. The layout of the book is beautiful. Though the book offers a […] Read more…
