This is a great time of the year to look at your garden with brutally honest, objective eyes and assess what you can do now to make your garden interesting all year round. If you’re like many gardeners, you probably need more winter interest. It’s the rare garden that couldn’t benefit from the addition of [...]
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5 Spring-flowering Bulbs for Shady Spots
Posted in Gardening Inspiration, Plant Possibilities, tagged Checkered Lily, English Bluebells, spring-flowering bulbs for shade, Summer Snowflake, Trout Lily, Winter Wolf’s Bane on October 30, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Do you have a shady garden and just assume you can’t grow spring-flowering bulbs? It’s true, many spring-flowering bulbs require at least 6 hours of sun to thrive in a garden setting. But there are some bulbs that prefer a shady spot, like under deciduous trees. These spring-flowering bulbs typically bloom long before the leaves [...]
Bird-Scaping – Bird Baths
Posted in Gardening Inspiration, Sustainable Gardening, tagged bird baths, birdscaping, positioning a bird bath, selecting a bird bath on October 25, 2010 | 6 Comments »
This is the final post in a series about landscaping specifically to attract birds to your garden – bird-scaping. The first post was an overview of bird-scaping . The second post discussed the importance of trees to a bird-friendly garden and included several suggestions for trees that are attractive to birds. The third post looked at shrubs [...]
Habitat Garden: What Do You See?
Posted in Gardening Inspiration, tagged habitat garden, leaf litter on October 21, 2010 | 7 Comments »
What do you see… Do you see a bunch of fallen leaves that need to racked up, put in a pile and left by the side of the road? Or maybe the beginnings of a big pile of leaves that you can jump in, just like you did when you were a kid? Perhaps a nutritious [...]
Ornamental Grasses for Dynamic Privacy Screens
Posted in Gardening Inspiration, Natives, Plant Possibilities, tagged Andropogon gerardii 'Lord Snowdon's Big Blue', Miscanthus 'Giganteus', Panicum virgatum 'Dallas Blues' on October 18, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Every garden has a spot or two that could benefit from some screening – whether it’s for privacy, to make a space feel more intimate or to simply hide an ugly view. But instead of installing a fence or planting a row of evergreen soldiers, why not consider planting tall ornamental grasses? A privacy screen comprised of [...]
Foliage Follow-Up – October 2010
Posted in Gardening in Connecticut, Gardening Inspiration, tagged CT, Foliage Follow-Up, photos of foliage in Stamford on October 16, 2010 | 13 Comments »
For garden bloggers around the world, yesterday was Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, the day we celebrate the flowers blooming in our gardens. So that means today is Foliage Follow-Up, a day to celebrate the unsung heroes in many gardens – the foliage, berries and bark. Of course, right now in southwestern Connecticut, the foliage is shining [...]
Habitat Garden: What Do You See?
Posted in Gardening Inspiration, Sustainable Gardening, tagged eupatorium and rudbeckia spent flowers, habitat garden on October 6, 2010 | 13 Comments »
What do you see… Do you see spent flowers that are ‘ruining’ the fall garden and should be cut back ASAP? Or perhaps a source of food and shelter for birds? Or possibly the soon-to-be stars in a frost-kissed garden, glistening in the cold morning sun? Or maybe you see something completely different…what do you see?
Perennials for Bird-Scaping
Posted in Gardening Inspiration, Natives, Plant Possibilities, Sustainable Gardening, tagged aster, bee balm, bird-scaping, cardinal flower, coneflower, Liatris spicata, little bluestem, perennials to attract birds, switchgrass, tickseed, yarrow on August 21, 2010 | 5 Comments »
This is the fourth post in a series about landscaping specifically to attract birds to your garden – bird-scaping. The first post, an overview of bird-scaping can be found here. The second post, about the importance of trees to a bird-friendly garden which includes several suggestions for trees that are especially attractive to birds can [...]
O’Brien’s – A Hidden CT Gem for Hosta Lovers
Posted in Gardening in Connecticut, Gardening Inspiration, tagged O'Brien's Nurserymen in Granby, unique hosta on August 3, 2010 | 4 Comments »
A few weeks ago, I attended a Tweet-Up organized by fellow Connecticut landscape designer, and friend, Scott Hokunson of Blue Heron Landscape Design in Granby, CT. In case you’re wondering, a Tweet-Up is an actual meeting of people who met through the online social networking site Twitter. Scott chose O’Brien’s Nurserymen in Granby, CT as the [...]
Shrubs for Bird-Scaping
Posted in Gardening Inspiration, Landscape Design, Plant Possibilities, tagged American cranberry, Aronia arbutifolia, chokeberry, Cornus sericea, highbush blueberry, Lindera benzoin, redosier dogwood, shrubs for birdscaping, spicebush, vaccinium corymbosum on July 14, 2010 | 9 Comments »
This is the third post in a series about landscaping specifically to attract birds to your garden – bird-scaping. The first post, an overview of bird-scaping can be found here. The second post, about the importance of trees to a bird-friendly garden ,which includes several suggestions for trees that are especially attractive to birds can [...]
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