Each year the Garden Media Group publishes a Garden Trends Report. This year they reported seven specific trends. Here they are: Connected Greenery: In this day and age, our phones are always with us… We eat, sleep, walk, and talk with our phones. With more and more people becoming plugged in outside, it is not [Continue]
We cannot believe it is already March! Time just flies by! Here’s some chores and things that you’ll want to make sure happen during the month. If you’re still receiving snow, be sure to shovel and brush off the snow from any raised bed covers. Onto warmer thoughts… Prep any new garden beds as the [Continue]
Well the first month of 2016 just flew by! Here are some tips and to dos to take care of your landscapes and gardens for the month of February! Shop for early spring flowering shrubs and vines, such as Carolina Jessamine, daphne, azalea, camellia, and early rhododendrons. Order perennial plants and bulbs now for [Continue]
It’s January and many of us (including me) have made new year’s resolutions to become more fit and healthy in 2016. Reducing stress, getting more exercise, eating less salt and eating more fresh produce are all great goals. So how can gardening help maintain these goals? Well, an herb garden is a good place to [Continue]
Happy New Year! I trust you are having a great new year and you’ve started creating your New Year Resolutions. Why don’t you add “making your landscaping a priority” to your resolutions list? Here are some tips and to dos to take care of your landscapes and gardens. Browse through the many different seed [Continue]
When choosing plant material for your yard or garden, it is important to choose plants that will thrive in your local climate. For example, you wouldn’t want a plant that will die during the cold winter temperatures or a shrub that needs plenty of moisture if you live in a hot, dry area. This is [Continue]
Winter weather can damage or kill shrubs and trees. Winter sun, wind and cold temperatures can dry out evergreen foliage and make it turn brown and die back. It can also damage twigs and dormant buds. The weight of snow and ice may break branches. Salt used to remove ice is not good for shrubs [Continue]
At this time of year we start planning to feed our backyard birds. Before putting last years bird feeders out, it’s a good idea to clean them because this will help keep the garden birds healthy. It’s easiest to clean bird feeders outside, fill a bucket with hot water and add some dish detergent. [Continue]
Garden plants with ‘tender’ bulbs are plants that have bulbs, tubers, roots or corns that won’t survive the cold winter temperatures in USDA climate zone 6 or colder. The most commonly-planted ‘tender’ plants include cannas, callas, caladiums, dahlias, tuberous begonias, gladioluses, and tuberoses. Gardeners love these plants because they have decorative foliage and very showy [Continue]
When wintertime comes, the garden is usually austere and bare, consisting of little more than empty tree branches and colorless evergreen plants with no flowers. That makes for a dull, drab garden indeed. Those long months with no color can drive a gardener crazy and leave them chomping at the bit for some color by [Continue]
