Most gardeners know there is are serious problems affecting honey bees. What you may not realize is how important honey bees are not only to our gardens but to our food supply and economy too. A fun place to start learning about honey bees and their importance to all of us is at Help the [...]
Archive for December, 2009
Eat Ice Cream & Save Honey Bees
Posted in Sustainable Gardening, tagged buy ice cream and support honey bees, Colony Collapse Disorder, Haagen Dazs ice cream, Help the Honey Bees on December 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Garden Gift
Posted in Gardening Inspiration, tagged Gardening quotes, quotes about gardening and gardeners on December 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
As Christmas nears and 2009 comes to a close, I have been trying to think of an appropriate topic for a post that would be inspirational, fun and hopefully thought-provoking. Well, I couldn’t come up with anything original so I thought I would share with you some of my favorite quotes about gardening and gardeners. [...]
Welcoming Winter
Posted in Gardening in Connecticut, tagged doublefile viburnum, First day of winter 2009, Limelight hydrangea, pictures of garden in winter on December 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Winter officially begins tomorrow, December 21st, but yesterday Mother Nature gave us an early taste of what’s to come. Here in Stamford, CT, we got off pretty easy with only 5″ of snow from the massive storm that dumped three to four times that amount in other parts of the state. I was out taking [...]
Marvelous Mahonia aquifolium
Posted in Deer-resistant, Gardening in Connecticut, Zone 6 gardening, tagged deer resistant shrub, Mahonia aquifolium, Mahonia aquifolium 'Apollo', Mahonia aquifolium 'Compactum', Mahonia aquifolium 'Smaragd', shade tolerant evergreen shrub on December 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Here is southwestern Connecticut (zone 6), Mahonia aquifolium (Oregon Grapeholly) is definitely a relative unknown. A native to the Pacific northwest and much of Canada, it is worthy of a place in shady gardens throughout zones 4 – 8, especially if you have deer browsing in your garden. Oregon grapeholly has large, glossy evergreen leaves that resemble [...]
Book Preview…Great Gardens of America
Posted in Book Previews, tagged Great Gardens of America by Tim Richardson, Kykuit on December 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What makes American gardens ‘American’? That is the question author Tim Richardson seeks to answer in his book Great American Gardens. Richardson, a garden historian, has written a book that is more history book and less coffee table book. If you’re looking for a colorful, glossy book to display in your living room, this is probably not [...]
Additions to Connecticut’s Invasive Plant List
Posted in Gardening in Connecticut, tagged Connecticut invasisve plant list, Oriental Lady's thumb, porcelainberry, slender snake root on December 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
At its November meeting, the Connecticut Invasive Plants Council (CIPC) upgraded three plants from ‘Potentially Invasive’ status to ‘Invasive’ status on Connecticut’s Invasive Plant List. The three plants are: Porcelainberry (Ampelopsis brevipedunculata (Maxim.) Trautv.) - This woody vine is a rapid grower (up to 15 feet in one season) that quickly forms a dense mat of vegetation smothering [...]
Book Preview…The Truth About Garden Remedies
Posted in Book Previews, tagged Jeff Gilman, review of The Truth About Garden Remedies, save money on gardening on December 10, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Jeff Gilman’s book The Truth About Garden Remedies: What Works, What Doesn’t and Why should be on every gardener’s book shelf. Gilman, a horticulturist at the University of Minnesota, discusses the science behind more than 100 different concoctions gardeners use to care for their plants. Some of these concoctions are home-made remedies while others are commercially [...]
Planting to Save on Energy Costs
Posted in Gardening in Connecticut, Landscape Design, Zone 6 gardening, tagged how to plant a windbreak, planting a windbreak, saving money on energy costs, saving money with landscaping on December 7, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Properly selected and sited landscaping can save you money on heating costs by providing efficient wind protection, or windbreaks. And don’t forget, the benefits from a living windbreak will increase as the trees and shrubs mature. A windbreak works by lowering the wind chill near your home. Wind chill occurs when the wind speed lowers the outside air [...]
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