Category: PLANT INFO
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Cold Climate Gardening Books: New Titles
You can find many great gardening books, but when you see instructions such as “plant early spring and thin in April” and think “April early Spring […]
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How to Create and Maintain Trails in Your Woods
It’s time to put gardening on hold until the mud season. If you have woodlands on your property it is a great time to make paths […]
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How to Have Fragrant Lily of the Valley in Winter
Stand back, amaryllis. Amaryllis, step back. The lily of the valley is ready to take over. Yes, lily-of-the-valley! After my hyacinths bulbs rotted last winter and my amaryllis were clearly not […]
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Sundrops Add Sunshine To My Garden: Wildflower Wednesday
Sundrops are easy to grow, so it’s easy to overlook them. I was trying to come up with a plant for Wildflower Wednesday. I couldn’t come up […]
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A Flower Border Grows: How a Garden Bed Develops
It all started with some leftover manure. Three years ago I had to dispose of the composted manure left over from a garden project […]
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When is the gardening season over?
Four days ago, I complained about our first snowfall on Facebook. My friend teased, “Well you are the cold-climate gardener.” Yes, I am, and-I believe-a hardy person. This […]
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Are you worried about your plants in this weather?
I have bulbs poking out of the ground and it is only December! What should I do? Many cold climate gardeners are asking themselves the following […]
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(Not )Learning from My Mistakes
. Let’s begin with the positives. The Christmas cactus has never bloomed better. It has doubled or tripled the number of blooms it had in […]
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Unique Plants for Autumn Garden
Unique Plants for Autumn Garden Who doesn’t love a bargain? Plants can be purchased at a discount if you grow them from seeds or buy […]
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Rose Purgatory
Rose Purgatory, also known as Rose Purgatory, is a place where roses that are bad can go to redeem themselves. Why is a rose […]
