Take A Walk and Pause to Appreciate Its Beauty
Walks and pathways in the right places will help you find more pleasure in working and entertaining in your yard. Study the overall plan for your place to decide the
Landscape
Low Maintenance Gardening
July is a good time to think about the first step of planning an overall home landscape: how much you can handle without getting tired of gardening. You’ll be wise
Color In The Midsummer Garden
A wealth of plants flower here in July and midsummer. North – Color in the Midsummer Garden Here are some of the plants that provide summer color in the North:
Put On A Terrific Colorful Show With Ivy-Leaf Geraniums
In some sections of the West Coast, they spill their flowers in brilliant profusion over slopes, banks, and low walls. In a cool greenhouse or sunroom in winter, they’re among
When Plants Needs Umbrellas
Bottomless buckets, rusty cans, and decrepit bushel baskets become commodities of value when plants need umbrellas. I once used (with much success) an old bushel basket to shade a white
The Dawn Redwood
How well it is named, this tree with an unbroken lineage of two hundred million years! It once formed vast forests around the northern hemisphere—forests in which the dinosaur roamed
Hanging Baskets in Every Climate
Here’s everything you need to know if you want to use hanging baskets in every climate. Containers Old-fashioned wire baskets in various sizes (from 8” to 18” inches in diameter);
Plants for Hanging Baskets
I use the word “basket” to designate any container holding living plants that can be suspended from a support. For example, it could be a purchased or homemade wire basket
Growing Lavender: Touching Hands With 17th Century Manor
To raise lavender in one’s own garden and use the crushed flowers and leaves as a sachet is to touch hands momentarily with the lady of the 17th-century manor. She
The Ancient Custom Of A Grapevine Hedge
Why not emulate the ancient custom of making a hedge of grape vines? To do this, you allow your young vine to develop only one single rod, which you train