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Surviving Heat
In very hot weather, remember to water your potted plants twice a day as the soil in pots dries out quickly. Read More »
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July 21, 2021
A Mailbox Garden
Choose just a few plants that will need minimum attention, and plant something vigorous around the base of the post to soften it.
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July 15, 2021
Types of Gardens
If I were to start over, and knowing what I now know, I would start with a plan and a clearer idea of the type of garden I wanted.
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July 8, 2021
White Snakeroot
It was not until the 1920s that it was recognized that cattle that grazed on white snakeroot caused humans to die if they drank the cow’s milk.
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July 1, 2021
Harmful Plants
The garden is full of plants that are poisonous. Most are not lethal, but a few are, so it is wise to err on the side of caution.
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June 24, 2021
Beautiful But Noxious: Purple Loosestrife
Purple Loosestrife clogs wetlands and waterways, choking out other plants and eliminating food sources for native wildlife. The plant is classified as a federal noxious weed.
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June 17, 2021
Native Perennials
Native plants are important to preserve native wildlife and the ecology of our landscape, but some natives will suit our particular climate and garden space better than others.
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June 10, 2021
Pass-Along Plants
Some of the best plants in my garden were given to me by other gardeners or came from plant swaps held by garden clubs.
June 3, 2021
Lesser Calamint
Dainty and durable and deer resistant—just my kind of plant!
May 27, 2021
Cut Flower Favorite: Alstroemeria
There are bound to be some times of the year when there are no flowers in our gardens, and that is when we just have to buy some! A good reliable flower to buy is the South American native alstroemeria.
May 13, 2021
Angel's Trumpets
The spectacular blooms known as Angel’s Trumpets grow on plants that are vase-shaped shrubs or small trees.
May 6, 2021
Flowering Tobacco
Flowering Tobacco--for minimum effort, a gardener gets maximum results!
April 29, 2021
Thinking About Color
It's is a good idea to think about color before you buy a bunch of news plants in springtime.
April 15, 2021
Lily-of-the-Valley Bush
All Pieris shrubs are evergreen and are related to rhododendrons and mountain laurels.
April 8, 2021
Calycanthus floridus
Calycanthus is a fine sweet shrub that also goes by the name of Carolina allspice.
April 1, 2021
Native Aronia
Our native red and black chokeberry shrubs provide four seasons of interest and are drought tolerant once they are established in gardens
March 25, 2021
Native Spicebush
Lindera is a host plant for the promethean moth and the spicebush swallowtail butterfly.
March 18, 2021
Siting Shrubs
Shrubs are easy-care and long-lived stalwarts in our landscapes in all seasons of the year.
March 11, 2021
Avoiding Chaos
How do we avoid a messy medley of too many plants creating chaos in the garden? I can tell you from personal experience that it isn’t easy!
March 4, 2021
Imports
Now, only about 20% of our cut flowers are grown in California, Washington State, and Oregon, where most used to be grown for domestic sale.
February 25, 2021
Harvesting Flowers
Where do our cut flowers come from? Often, South America. Workers in greenhouses cut each stem individually and immediately place each flower in a bucket of water...
February 18, 2021
Flower Longevity
Refrigerated trucks and unheated holds of planes are cold, helping cut flowers from abroad to stay fresh during their journey to the U.S.
February 11, 2021
Valentines Flowers
Over one-hundred million roses are purchased in the United States for Valentine’s Day each year, and nearly all are red and long stemmed.
February 4, 2021
Winter Landscapes
What we see from our windows all through the cold days of winter is our garden’s architectural structure formed by the trees and shrubs that are the long-term residents of our gardens year round.
