A Forsythia to Grow For Its Foliage and Its Flowers For many gardeners, the first bright yellow flowers of forsythia herald the true beginning of Spring. While there may have been other color in your garden already, once the forsythia is in bloom, you know you’ve turned the corner and the chance of freak snowstorms or sub-freezing [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Growing Forsythia for its Foliage
Posted in Gardening in Connecticut, Landscape Design, Plant Possibilities, Zone 6 gardening on March 31, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Quick…it’s time to become a ‘Slow Gardener’?
Posted in Gardening Inspiration, Sustainable Gardening on March 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The NY Times had an interesting article in yesterday’s Home & Garden section about Felder Rushing, a horticulturist and gardener from Mississippi who practices ‘Slow Gardening’. According to Mr. Rushing, slow gardening is a simple philosophy to embrace. He urges “gardeners to relax, take their time and follow seasonal rhythms, instead of doing everything at [...]
Amelanchier – A Multi-Season Star
Posted in Deer-resistant, Edibles, Gardening in Connecticut, Landscape Design, Natives, Sustainable Gardening, Zone 6 gardening on March 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Now that spring is finally here, many gardeners naturally begin to think about all the new and exciting choices that are soon to be available for planting at their local nurseries. While I’m always up for a trip to look for new plants (I admit it - I’m like a kid in a candy store on my first [...]
Planting A Tree Can Save You Money
Posted in Gardening in Connecticut, Landscape Design, tagged Return on Landscaping investment on March 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I thought I’d share this short article I wrote for a quarterly newsletter published by Stamford realtor Joyce Cebo on how making an investment in landscaping can actually save you money in the long run. Think about it – what other home improvement actually increases in value as it ages – certainly not that new kitchen! [...]
Food For Thought…
Posted in Edibles, Gardening Inspiration, Sustainable Gardening on March 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Are you one of the mushrooming number of Americans who plans to grow some of their own food this year? According to the Garden Media Group, who tracks and predicts annual trends in home gardening, one of the hottest trends in 2009 will be Grow-It-Yourself (GIY). It seems that more and more people plan to grow [...]
Landscape Design 201 – The Principle of Unity
Posted in Landscape Design, Plant Possibilities on March 18, 2009 | 8 Comments »
This is my second installment in a series of posts to help gardeners incorporate the principles of good landscape design into their gardens. (click here to read the first installment). The principle of unity means the individual elements (the trees, shrubs, perennials, hardscape materials, furniture, etc) of a designed landscape will work together in harmony to create a sense [...]
Easy Care Native Plants – A Book Preview
Posted in Book Previews, Natives on March 16, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The ‘Native Plants’ shelf in your local library or book store is becoming increasingly populated with titles that proclaim to the help the average homeowner incorporate native plants into their gardens. Now, I’m all for using more native plants and I think every gardener’s library should have at least one volume devoted specifically to native plants. [...]
My Inaugural Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day
Posted in Bloom Day, Deer-resistant, Gardening in Connecticut, Plant Possibilities, Zone 6 gardening on March 15, 2009 | 10 Comments »
I’m so excited to be participating in my first Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day (GBBD). I can almost hear you asking, ‘What is GBBD?’. GBBD is the brainchild of fellow garden blogger Carol who lives in Indiana and writes about gardening on her blog called May Dreams Gardens. Apparently, about three years ago, Carol came up with the idea [...]
Landscape Design 101
Posted in Landscape Design on March 12, 2009 | 13 Comments »
I’m going to let you in on a secret that not all landscape designers will share with you…good landscaping design is simple! Good design, quite simply, is an idea or inspiration that is transformed into a plan that works for you. To quote an old cliche, the whole is much more than the sum of it’s parts. While [...]
And The Award Goes To…Hakonechloa macra ‘Aureola’
Posted in Deer-resistant, Gardening in Connecticut, Landscape Design, Plant Possibilities on March 10, 2009 | 12 Comments »
Every year the Perennial Plant Association names one plant as it’s Perennial Plant of the Year and for 2009 the award goes to Hakonechloa macra ‘Aureola’. (Assuming you’ve already clicked on the link, you now know all the site particulars necessary for successfully growing ‘Aureola’. If you haven’t clicked on the link, please do because I [...]
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