I’m declaring it here: Someday I will go to the Chelsea Flower Show. This annual event is a veritable utopia for gardeners who go to take in the show gardens (from large to small), and… [Continue Reading]
Archives for May 2014
ANOTHER SPRING, ANOTHER WINDOW BOX DESIGN
As you know, I love planting containers. Of the containers I plant I think I put the most emphasis on the window box. It is probably the first thing you see when you pull up… [Continue Reading]
A LONG WEEKEND, A TREE IN BLOOM
Did you all have a great long weekend (at least my U.S. readers who celebrated Memorial Day)? I love long weekends (well, who doesn’t?) but my goodness, they are so exhausting. Saturday was our big… [Continue Reading]
WILDFLOWERS: THE ULTIMATE IN LOW-MAINTENANCE GARDEN PLANTS
I can’t tell you how much I wish this post was showing you the new beds in the back/side yard, but I still haven’t finished pulling up the sod. Apparently I grossly underestimated how much… [Continue Reading]
POPPING IN ON THE POPPING GARDEN
I’ve been so busy working on various projects around the garden that I’ve neglected showing you what the actual garden is looking like these days. As usual, there is good news and bad news in… [Continue Reading]
THE WORST JOB IN THE GARDEN
You think this is going to be about weeding, don’t you? Well, I do detest weeding, but it pales in comparison to the garden job that I truly abhor: pulling up sod.Last weekend I finally… [Continue Reading]
FEATURE FRIDAY: CONTAINER DESIGN
It seems incomprehensible to me that I have given basically no thought to container plantings this year. By this time of the year I usually know exactly what I’ll be doing in all of my… [Continue Reading]