With a full, hopeful new year ahead of us, it’s the perfect time to get our ducks in a row! This landscape maintenance checklist for…
Just as in growing things, there is also a perfect time to kill things. Let’s take an example: you have a 15-year-old lilac that needs…
As soon as the Mock oranges finish flowering, hedging season begins. Way back at the beginning of March we learned the rules of pruning. Never…
Spring Flowering Shrub Trimming – Now is the time! Spring flowering shrubs are all shrubs that flower before June 21. These include your Forsythia, Prunus…
I read a wonderful Zen book recently that glorified not the attainment of one’s goal but the path towards those goals. It went on about…
The bulk of your planting should be done right now. Start containers in mid-May and then harden them off by bringing them in and out…
Designing your landscape Surround yourself with inspiration. Look beyond the confines of other garden designs in magazines, on the internet and stray in to furniture…
Plants are living things and have certain requirements in order to survive and thrive. If your plant knowledge is based on what you like when…
This is my series of top 10 things you need to consider before you start your landscaping. Everyone thinks that to do their landscaping they…