Once again, I’m joining in on the You Can Grow That! meme started by C.L. Fornari over at Whole Life Gardening. You Can Grow That! is a celebration of gardens and plants and the joy they bring to our lives. A Singular Pleasure One of the most graceful spring-flowering shrubs has to be doublefile viburnum, [...]
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You Can Grow That! ~ Doublefile Viburnum
Posted in Deer-resistant, Gardening in Connecticut, tagged doublefile viburnum, gardening in Connecticut, spring-flowering shrub for shade, Viburnum plicatum var. tomentosum on May 4, 2012 | 14 Comments »
In Praise of the Flowering Dogwood
Posted in Gardening in Connecticut, Habitat Gardening, Natives, tagged Cornus florida, dogwood anthracnose, flowering dogwoods, native tree for Connecticut garden on April 20, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Here in southwestern Connecticut, the flowering dogwoods are in bloom. Once a familiar sight in our landscapes, Cornus florida, also known as common dogwood, is frequently being passed over by many homeowners looking for a flowering tree for their gardens. Too common? Perhaps. Victim of some bad press? Possibly. Under-appreciated? Definitely. Part of the reason for this trend is the [...]
5 Perennials for Beginning Gardeners
Posted in Gardening in Connecticut, Plant Possibilities, tagged Baptisia australis, black-eyed Susan, blue false indigo, coreopsis, easy to grow perennials, Echinacea purpurea, Geranium Rozanne, long-blooming perennials, perennials for new gardeners, purple coneflower, rudbeckia on April 3, 2012 | 16 Comments »
I was teaching a garden design class last week and several of the students were totally new to gardening in Connecticut. A few had moved here to Connecticut from overseas and a few had recently purchased their first house and were starting their first gardens. They all wanted to know which perennials would be easiest to grow [...]
Groundcover for Shade – Sweet Woodruff
Posted in Gardening in Connecticut, Plant Possibilities, tagged Connecticut garden, deer-resistant groundcover, Galium odoratum, groundcover for shade, Sweet Woodruff on March 12, 2012 | 9 Comments »
It can be difficult to find flowering groundcovers for deep shade. In my Connecticut garden (zone 6b), I’ve found one of the easiest to grow groundcovers for shade is Sweet Woodruff (Galium odoratum). If you’ve got room in your garden for a low-maintenance shade lovers, here are a few things you should know about sweet woodruff: ◊ Lacy white [...]
You Can Grow That ~ Connecticut
Posted in Gardening in Connecticut, Habitat Gardening, Natives, tagged Amelanchier arborea, Amelanchier canadensis, Amelanchier laevis, Connecticut garden, wildlife gardening, You cangrow that on March 4, 2012 | 19 Comments »
Can you smell it? It’s almost spring. Soon our gardens, whether in Connecticut, Colorado or somewhere in between, will be bursting into life. The problem with many gardens I see as a landscape designer is that they are full of spring ‘one-hit wonders’. You know them, they look great for a few days or, if [...]
The Reluctant Seed Starter
Posted in Gardening in Connecticut, Plant Possibilities, tagged best edibles for Connecticut gardens, Hudson Valley Seed Library, starting seeds indoors on February 17, 2012 | 5 Comments »
I’m a reluctant seed starter. I have these fanciful visions of nurturing flats of seeds throughout the winter but it’s really just wishful thinking. I am so reluctant (read lazy), that I only start seeds that I can plant right into the ground in my Connecticut garden once the weather warms up in early spring. [...]
Tiarella cordifolia – Native Groundcover for Shade
Posted in Gardening in Connecticut, Natives, tagged foam flower, native groundcover for shade, Plants Noveau, Tiarella cordifolia on February 6, 2012 | 14 Comments »
My new botanical obsession has got to be Tiarella. I’m a little late to the tiarella (a.k.a. foam flower) party, having really just discovered them last year. That’s when, in my search for shade-tolerant ground covers, I planted both T. cordifolia ‘Running Tapestry’ and T. cordifolia ‘Black Snowflake’ in shady spots in my garden. Outta My Way My obsession [...]
Sustainable Roses
Posted in Plant Possibilities, Sustainable Gardening, tagged cold hardy roses, earth-kind roses, growing roses without chemicals, roses for Connecticut gardens, sustainable roses on January 9, 2012 | 8 Comments »
Sustainable roses. Sounds like an oxymoron, doesn’t it? If you’re like me, you love roses but don’t grow them because you equate growing roses with spraying lots of chemical pesticides, herbicides and fungicides. Recently, I saw Peter Kukielsi, the curator of the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden at New York Botanical Garden talk about his efforts to transition the famous rose garden from [...]
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