Eye-Catchers for the Wintertime Garden
Designing a garden that offers up novel impressions for every season is an exciting challenge. After the leaves have fallen, you’ll discover that a number […]
Effective Use of Woody Plants
Trees and shrubs that attract the gaze in wintertime are very useful for encouraging viewers to see the world of plants in a different light. […]
Winterprep: Yardwork One Last Time!
Prepping the Garden for Winter – Have You Thought of Everything? It’s high time to bring container plants in to their cold-weather quarters, a spot […]
Fertilizing: Protecting Plants and the Environment
Garden plants need nutrients for healthy growth, so hobby gardeners give them fertilizer. But, beginning in the fall, plants enter a dormant period. If you […]
Ideal Planting Time
…for woody plants and perennials. Often, garden owners don’t realize that new plants that are put into the soil in fall have a jump on […]
Real Fragrance!
How flowers make themselves known! Finally, the time has come when we can sit outside into the twilight, enjoying mild evenings, listening to songbirds and […]
A Rosy Outlook
For centuries it’s been a symbol for love and beauty. As early as the Antiquities it was considered a luxury item: the upper classes perfumed […]
Blooming Wonders – Hydrangea
Modern hydrangeas are truly multitalented. They blossom in glorious globes on balconies and terraces, their abundant slender stalks captures the eye’s attention, and they combine […]
Cutting Roses, Trees and Shrubs
This is the proper time for cutting of many trees and shrubs: after the winter – before sprouting: when the forsythia bloom. Also perennials that […]
Fertilize Rhododendrons
Rhododendrons are always fertilized after flowering, unlike other Flowering Shrubs. You should use a special Rhododendron fertilizer. Compost is not suitable due to its high pH. An alternative is a natural fertilizer such as GreatOrganics, where there […]
Summer of Roses for Balcony and Terrace
If you want to enjoy being surrounded by roses, even if you “only” have a balcony or terrace at your disposal, the perennial question may […]
Hydrangea: a garden classic
Hydrangea is a garden classic that offers so many options from ground cover all the way through to trees – yes really! There is also […]
Container Plants
Evergreen boxwood ball topiaries might be classic exemplars of container plants, but there are other woody plants that will thrive in large pots and delight […]
Season Start For Outdoor Potted Plants
Potted plants can be taken outdoors as soon as the risk of frost has passed, so that they can become accustomed to their new surroundings […]
Blooming Climbers
Fairytale images appear before our eyes in summer when blooming roses surround archways and doorways, forming a frame of flowers around windows and doors. The […]
