Non-Stop Gardening Tips & Inspiration
What do you do during the quietest days of winter to enjoy nature and the outdoors? I had a really nice hike the other day... Though it was cold outside, (no snow or flooded ground) there was nothing but clear skies and clear footing, making … [Read more]
Here's a small fern you can use in a number of ways for greenery, texture and evergreen beauty throughout the year. The Lemon Button Fern grows 1 foot high by 1 foot wide. It can be grown as a house plant, preferring bright indirect to low … [Read more]
I really ENJOY seeing and using plants to solve a problem, or to play a role in design. While garden plants have ornamental value, you can see directly in nature, that the ecosystem of different plant types like trees, shrubs, and ground covers … [Read more]
Are you looking for a little plant inspiration over the Christmas Holidays and into the New Year? Me too! I took a drive last weekend to Half Moon Bay Nursery in Half Moon Bay, California; and took some PHOTOS - and shopped :-) - OF some of their … [Read more]
I'm wondering if you've seen any GREAT Vertical Garden Living Walls Lately? Today I stumbled upon a very unique way to display Tillandsias (a.k.a. - Air Plants)... It was a steel wall with circular cut outs that serve to functionally hold … [Read more]
Plants, if you let them, function in garden design like a small business owner wearing many hats. PLANTS CAN ACT AS: - Architectural structures - Emphasize the three dimensional quality of your garden - Give linear perspective - Divide … [Read more]
I find myself in Vancouver just two days before VanDusen Gardens is about to open their winter light show. Even though it's during the day and before the opening we go anyway and, wow, glad we did. Such a fun garden to walk around and the added … [Read more]
Would your new fence make you even happier if it was covered in vines? Or maybe one side of your garden has a bare wall that is not that aesthetically pleasing and would be less so if it were donned with a flowering trumpet vine? If this is something … [Read more]
The growth habit of many of the best vines for flowering and greening up a wall, fence or any flat surface requires some kind of structure to support them so that they can ascend vertically and horizontally. Vines that twine with tendrils and … [Read more]
Is it a wives tale or is it true? That using Epsom salts can green up your holly? Your magnolia? Your camellia? I myself, haven't experimented at all with Epsom salts for gardening purposes. But I do always have a bag from the drugstore, … [Read more]