What are Ornamental Trees? These trees are usually small with special features like interesting bark, showy flowers, or eye-catching foliage. An ornamental tree also has a pleasing shape and fits easily into modern yards. This may seem like a tall order of outstanding characteristics, but the “ornamental” part of the description means that the trees are […]
landscaping
We Went South …and now I’m wondering
South, as in the state of Georgia, and so you won’t hear me complaining about the interminable reappearance of cold in Ohio. Staying with my son who has a nice property right within Atlanta, he is like many young professionals, who just doesn’t feel the desire for lots of yardwork. Yet, he likes the idea […]
Seeing with a fresh eye
The human brain has mechanisms that help it work more efficiently, but those same things also create certain ruts in our thinking and perceptions. It would be very inefficient to approach all experiences as if they were new every time. Yet, that is what we must do if we are to be creative. What to […]
Peripherals: The Greenhouse
Not having weighed in here for a little while, it was time! A household is so much more than the shell of the house itself, there are furnishings, interiors and exteriors, and there are the out buildings, which I am calling the “peripherals”, here. Nowadays, even the garage is connected to the main house, so […]
Three Lists of 5
Everyone’s got an opinion. Garden Wise Guy listed Five Plants I Hate, and he included Impatiens (for a good reason: California climate). Somewhere in my blogosphere meanderings a list had included petunias (I was reading lots of blogs this morning!) and I even read that one gardener wouldn’t plant anything that appeared in the flats […]
landscape choices
I thought I would use this blog like a real journal, thinking things out on paper. The climate factors for the plants I need around the septic tank: partial sun; full force West/SW winds; droughty conditions in summer; somewhat alkaline ph; viewed year round and conspicuous. I want some low evergreen and a deciduous, perhaps […]
