10 Genius Garden Hacks for a Bigger, Bountiful Harvest
Unlock gardening success with these ten expert tips. Improve growth and enjoy a bountiful harvest this season with simple garden hacks.
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10 Surprising Ways to Improve Your Garden by Saving Autumn Leaves
Discover 10 surprising ways to improve your garden by saving autumn leaves. Enhance soil health, support wildlife, and control weeds naturally.
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Discover the Art of Year-Round Gardening with Cold-Resistant Flowers
Discover the art of year-round gardening with cold-resistant flowers, providing vibrant colour and visual interest through all seasons. Learn planting tips, care guidelines, and the ecological benefits of maintaining a seasonal garden. Enhance your outdoor space's beauty and sustainability, and support local wildlife with cold-resistant flowers like calendula, pansies, chrysanthemums, and more. Start your journey to a vibrant, eco-friendly garden that thrives even in the harshest climates.
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7 Ways to Make Your Garden Cozy and Enjoyable in Winter
Do you love spending time in your garden, but dread the cold and gloomy winter months? If so, you’re not alone. Many of us struggle to make the most of…
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The Art and Science of Tree Trimming: How to Keep Your Trees Happy and Healthy
Have you ever looked at a beautifully trimmed tree and wondered how it got that way? Tree trimming is both an art and a science, requiring skill and knowledge to…
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The Art of Tree Trimming: Pruning vs. Trimming
When it comes to maintaining the health and beauty of your trees, two terms often come up: pruning and trimming. But what exactly do these terms mean? Which one is…
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Low-Cost Landscaping: Create a Stunning Oasis on a Budget
Who doesn’t dream of having a beautiful outdoor space to relax and unwind? But often, the idea of landscaping can seem daunting, especially when you’re on a tight budget. The…
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The Prayer Plant: A Beautiful Addition to Your Home
Are you looking to add a touch of elegance and serenity to your home? Look no further than the prayer plant! This stunning plant not only adds beauty to any…
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The Joy of Growing Edible Plants: A Journey to Self-Sufficiency
Have you ever stopped to marvel at the wonders of nature and its ability to nourish us? There is something truly magical about growing your own edible plants, witnessing their…
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Planting Bulbs This Weekend? Ten Q&A Tips for Guaranteed Success
It’s that rare, magnificent autumn day, and you want to take full advantage of it by planting all of your spring-flowering bulbs, today. The following ten tips will guarantee the…
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Spectacular Trees and Shrubs for Color a Plant for Every Landscape
Color is everywhere! It’s a part of our daily lives, our natural environment, and the living spaces that we create for ourselves. It is also one of the fundamental attributes…
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Bountiful Landscapes: Ideas for Edible Gardens
When I was young, the late great naturalist Euell Gibbons was often on the radio or television encouraging people to eat from nature. The thought of an edible landscape instantly…
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Asian Influences in Our Northern Gardens: Eastern Origins of Common Landscape Plants
Imagine for a moment what our yards and gardens across the North would look like without plants whose lineages trace back to Asiatic origins. Imagine our gardens without Asiatic and…
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New And Enduring Plants for Northern Landscapes
Northern gardeners are always excited to catch wind of new plant introductions they’ll be able to bring into their yards and gardens as the palette of landscape plants gets ever…
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The Magnificent Flowering Giants of The North: Ornamental Crab Apples for Your Yard
We northerners sometimes don’t realize just how lucky we are. For all the very showy trees and shrubs that grace the landscapes of our southern neighbors, we actually have a…
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Top Ten Plants for Hummingbirds: Favorite Blooms for Attracting Hummingbirds to the Garden
Learn how to use plants in your landscape to attract hummingbirds to the garden. The Hummingbird is a long-time favorite of gardeners; little jeweled fliers that buzz about almost too…
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A Thousand Lilies for Every Landscape: Reporting From the “World Lily Capital”
To borrow the timeless words of Rod Serling, “Imagine if you will…” an idyllic community awash in a cacophony of colors, its countless gardens floating like shimmering islands atop the…
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Top 10 Wish List of a Northern Gardener
How many gardeners and landscapers have started a sentence with the words “If only…”? Everyone has their own list of plants they would like to see or see more of…
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A Lifetime of Endless Summers: Special Hydrangea Care Tips for Northerners
There are few northern gardeners who haven’t at least once wished that they could grow the lovely florist’s hydrangeas in their gardens, the kind with the enormous globular mopheads of…
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A Hummingbird Haven in Your Backyard
Many northern gardeners that we speak to in the course of our work are both surprised and delighted to hear that with some effort, they could easily enjoy hummingbirds in…
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