Recently, fellow Native Plants & Wildlife Gardens team member, Genevieve Schmidt, wrote a post about native plant alternatives for several overused plants found in many gardens in California, where Gen lives, gardens and works as a landscaper. As Gen mentions in her post,Plant This, Not That: California Natives Edition, by simply looking beyond the every-house-on-my-street-has-one-of-those plants, and [...]
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Plant This, Not That
Posted in Gardening in Connecticut, Habitat Gardening, Natives, Zone 6 gardening, tagged butterfly bush, maiden grass, native plant alternatives to hybrid holly, wildlife friendly plants on November 20, 2011 | 9 Comments »
July 2010 Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
Posted in Bloom Day, Zone 6 gardening, tagged Artemeisa 'Silver Mound', Belamcanda chinensis, Cleome 'White Queen', Coreopsis 'Full Moon', Garden Bloggers Bllom Day, Liatris spicata, Origanumlibanoticum on July 15, 2010 | 12 Comments »
It’s July 15th so that means it’s that time of the month to share what’s happening here in my southwestern CT (zone 6) garden. If you’re new to Garden Bloggers Bloom Day (GBBD), there are a free things you should know about it. First, GBBD is the brainchild of Carol over at May Dreams Gardens [...]
Garden Designers Roundtable: Fashioning a Focal Point
Posted in Gardening Inspiration, GDRT, Natives, Zone 6 gardening, tagged Chionanthus virginicus, Cornus alternifolia, Garden Designer Roundtable, landscape design focal points, Pagoda dogwood on April 27, 2010 | 30 Comments »
Welcome to Focal Points, the April topic from Garden Designers Roundtable. Links to my fellow roundtablers who are also posting on this topic can be found at the end of this post. Focal points are a key concept in virtually every field of design. By manipulating individual elements in a design, the designer can focus the [...]
Pruning Mophead Hydrangeas
Posted in Gardening in Connecticut, Zone 6 gardening, tagged Genevieve Schmidt, North Coast Gardening, pruning mophead hydrangeas, pruning video tutorial on April 14, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I am frequently asked at this time of the year about pruning hydrangeas. The last few garden coaching clients I have seen mentioned that their mophead hydrangeas (Hydrangea macrophylla) simply don’t bloom well for them. When I hear this, the first thing I ask is when they typically prune them. Often, the answer is ‘now’. If [...]
Swag from Renee’s Garden
Posted in Edibles, Zone 6 gardening, tagged Apricot-Peach Parfait hollyhock, Broken Colors Four o'Clocks, Garden Writers Association, purple pole beans, Rattlesnake beans, Renee's Garden seeds, Sea of Red lettuce, Vanilla Berry nasturtiums on March 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »
One of the many perks of belonging to the Garden Writer’s Association, an organization of professional communicators in the green industry, is the offers for free stuff, or swag, that are beginning to arrive in my mailbox. It’s actually a simple yet effective marketing strategy on the part of these companies – send samples of your [...]
New Shrubs for 2010
Posted in Gardening in Connecticut, Plant Possibilities, Zone 6 gardening, tagged Bloomerang reblooming lilac, Garden Writers Association, Invincibelle Spirit hydrangea, Lo & Behold buddleia, new shrubs for 2010 on February 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Recently I attended New England Grows, a regional trade expo for green industry professionals. In addition to seeing lots of inspiring products and attending some worthwhile educational seminars, I attended my first Garden Writers Association luncheon. In addition to meeting and networking with other garden writers, we were treated to a preview of some of Proven Winners newest shrub introductions for [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
It’s Not Too Late to Plant Bulbs
Posted in Gardening in Connecticut, Gardening Inspiration, Plant Possibilities, Zone 6 gardening, tagged bulb auger, daffodils, how to plant bulbs, landscape design and spring flowering bulbs, methods to plant alot of bulbs quickly, naturalizing bulbs, planting spring-flowering bulbs on November 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Even though it’s almost Thanksgiving, it’s not too late here in southwestern Connecticut (zone 6) to plant spring-flowering bulbs. Because the weather has been seasonable and the ground is not frozen, this is a great time to plant. I ordered 200 daffodil bulbs from Colorblends about a month ago and as you can see from [...]
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