Fantastic Plant Combinations
If the ground isn’t frozen solid where you live yet (SORRY CHRIS!), fall is a good time to nab some perennials on sale to fill out the garden and get a jump-start on spring. While at the Garden Writer’s Symposium I picked up the new book Perennial Companions by Tom Fischer with photos by Richard and Adrian Bloom. It is totally inspiring. (FTC disclosure: I guess I was “given” this book for free. If by …
Plant a Halloween Garden!
Halloween is coming! Fortunately for us gardeners, Mother Nature has several scary plant species worthy of boos and scares. From flowers shaped like eyeballs to grass stained with blood, you’re sure to find a frightful plant to set the tone of Halloween.
Are you ready? Here’s a little garden’s worth of spooky delights to showcase for your trick or treaters!
Spiderflower
Spiderflower, or Cleome, is a perfect start to the Halloween garden. What’s Halloween without …
Who Decides what’s Pretty?
I’m back from the Garden Writers Symposium in Raleigh, NC. It was, as per usual, a great time! This year, in particular, I talked with a wider cross-section of garden professionals including writers, lecturers, photographers, illustrators, retail owners, plant breeders, tv personalities, publishers, and so on and so forth.
Here’s Where I Play Eye Doctor
I went to the eye doctor a few weeks ago so that I could order some surfing sunglasses. (If you want to …
Pump up Your Perennial Garden this Fall!
Now is a perfect time to plant perennials. The summer is winding down, the evening temperatures are cooling off, and plants are transitioning from flowering (reproducing) to stockpiling nutrients and energy for the winter. Most garden centers are trying to clean out their nurseries, and mail-order catalogues are getting rid of excess stock before moving it up to the next sized pot. That makes the fall a perfect time to find great …
Top Tips for Fall Gardening
In the last post, we gave you all kinds of advice about what NOT to do to put your garden to bed in the fall. I figured that it was only fair to follow that post with a list of things you SHOULD do at this time of year to tuck your garden in for the winter. If you follow this advice, …
