Dependable Blooms to Brighten Your Landscape Everyone wants a beautiful garden, but not everyone wants to have to coddle plants that give only limited return of bloom for a good garden show. It’s not as if the modern homeowner has access to the kind of professional gardener that made the English gardens of the early […]
Top Ten Lists of Plants
It might be the top ten choices of anything, but I mainly record the ten best plants for a given situation. Easy and visually helpful way to review good things for the garden.
10 Useful Gardening Tips For Spring
I gathered up some expert gardening tips from around the web, from beginners to a few unusual ones. 1 Soak your seedlings …the roots of the seedlings become so entangled that separating them without damaging the roots is not easy to do. What can you do in such a case? Fortunately, here’s a trick that […]
Do You Grow Herbs? 10 Reasons To Love Them
There are so many ways to enjoy herb plants, that they are not for herb gardens only. Think about tucking them into the landscape, into containers or into your home. I do I enjoy thee? Oh, Herb, Let me count the ways! 10 Ways I Enjoy Herbs (and you can, too!) In companion plantings, herbs […]
10 Cool Season Annual Flowers To Plant
Shirley poppies and Bachelor Buttons Not every garden writer alerts you to the fact that annual flowers can have seasons that are shorter than other choices. For places like Ohio which have hot summers, common annuals will only do well when our weather is cooler. Such times as in early summer only. Those cool annual […]
August Gardening: Ten Suggestions
Yes, it is hot, and no one feels like doing much gardening in the dog days of summer, but here are ten suggestions for your gardening efforts. Remember that August is a good time to weed, and get things ready for fall season planting. September is an important time to plant perennials so they […]
What are your ten top choices for perennial plantings?
If I was reduced to ten plants around which to plan the gardening season, which would I choose?
