Gardening Tips

Gardening Tips to Help Keep Your Garden at its Best!

Fall is for Planting!

Now is an ideal time to plant trees, shrubs, and many other plants. The soil is still warm enough to promote strong root growth, and

Care for Your Garden Pottery

A classic example of contrarieties can be seen in pottery. It is both durable and fragile. Durable, in that it is capable of lasting for

Bringing Your Plants Indoors

Many winter- and spring-flowering houseplants spend the summer outdoors. Make sure these are brought in before the first frost threatens. Clear away the mulching material

Garden Safety: Lifting Heavy Items

Gardening can give you a great workout, especially when you incorporate all the weight lifting that comes from schlepping plants, packaged soil, mulch and wheelbarrow

Avoiding Mid-Summer Doldrums

Mid-summer can be excruciatingly hot - so who wants to garden, right? It’s way too hot to be digging large planting holes. It certainly isn’t

Gardening In The Shade

Shade is inevitable in gardens. It is a blessing and a burden; while few plants flourish in the shade, the ones which do flourish are

Vertical Gardening: Expanding Your Herizons

Until fairly recently, the term “vertical gardening” evoked images of vines on fences or trellises and…well, that’s pretty much it. Now, vertical gardening is experiencing

Caring for Japanese Maples

Many homeowners purchase a beautiful Japanese maple in spring only to bring in burnt and damaged leaves in summer, worried that their investment is about