Topiary in the garden follows traditional geometry with crisply formed shapes. Globes, pyramids, cubes, spirals, pom pom trees, and pleached trees set the stage for an all-out topiary garden or just a touch. In this post take a look…
14 Spring Flowering Trees & Shrubs Worth Knowing in Zone 6!
A lot of the most GORGEOUS flowering trees and shrubs bloom during the 3-months of spring and it’s hard not to be mesmerized when they’re in flower. Blooms come in many colors, shapes, and sizes. The showy bracts of the dogwood (Cornus), the pea-like flowers of both the redbud (Cercis), and yellowwood (Cladrastis.) Shrubs with red foliage and smoke-like flowers in smokebush (Cotinus), white flower panicles in both the false spirea (Sorbaria), and oakleaf hydrangea (Hydrangea). Enjoy this post featuring 14 all-time favorite trees and shrubs for your spring garden.
San Francisco’s Small Coastal Planting in a Surfer’s Paradise!
Great Highway is a long street that runs parallel to Ocean Beach and the Pacific Ocean. Homes along the Great Highway face west and there’s little buffer from the elements, just a large man-made berm and Highway 1. With extreme conditions such as fog, salt-laden air, and high winds, (and the bonus of tunneling gophers chewing away at plant roots) growing a garden full of plants can be challenging.
Short Fence Ideas for Privacy, Community or Boundary!
Short Fence Love! The short fence interests me particularly because the community feel still exists, as does the interplay between public and private. With a short fence, the home’s boundaries are clearly delineated and in place, while at the same time, the home garden’s aliveness and personality are still there – and sometimes – for […]
October’s Beach and Coastal Gardens, Stinson Beach and Seadrift
In this short photo post, I want to highlight the beauty of plants and life close to the waves of salty sea air. Not a lot of plants are acclimated to salt air and heavy winds. In this post, natives by way of beach grasses, perennials, and trees are included. Also, designed home garden plantings […]
How to Choose Perennials for Less Maintenance?
If you’re looking for some color this spring, summer and fall perennials are a good bang for your buck. For a definition refresher, a perennial is: A plant that survives from year to year in a temperate climate but dies back just above or below the ground at the onset of the dormant season. ~Source: […]
Plant Spot Light: Lion’s Tail for Late Summer/Fall Color
In this short post let’s have a look at Leonotus leonurus (Lion’s Tail) a ‘must have’ plant for the dry Mediterranean garden. This evergreen perennial does very well in mild winter climates where fast draining soils set-up for year round flowering. Though peak flowering is summer to fall – if you prune mildly,
Spooky Property Damaging Japanese Knotweed Haunts Homeowners this Halloween!
Just when you thought Halloween couldn’t get any scarier – think again! Knotweed is a homeowner’s property nightmare in many states and the world.
This spookily invasive plant is so damaging, and bad, that in the UK, there is a company specializing fully on it’s removal- including a payment plan and guaranteed 10-year warranty.
How This Midwest College Town: Bloomington, Indiana Inspires!
Decades after graduation, it was time for Judy and me to revisit my college, Indiana University, in Bloomington, Indiana for a few weeks visit this summer 2022. We had visited for a week, in February of 2022, and were both so enamored, we wanted to return. This Midwestern college town delivers in the ways that college towns do.
Bougainvillea Shrubs for Curb Appeal! (Part 2)
If you live in a climate where Bougainvillea will grow to be a flowering skyscraper vine, don’t hesitate to consider another form: SHRUB BOUGAINVILLEA.
If you’re not sure what that looks like, let me introduce you to a beautiful Berkeley, California garden which delivers 100% curb appeal! Using Bougainvillea in a variety of ways in your garden can reap electrifying rewards…
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