Planning a garden around a theme, such as a fairyland or outer space, allows kids to create a growing space that means something special to them.
Miscellaneous Lawn & Garden
Gardening with Perennials: Ornamental Grasses
Long relegated exclusively to lawns, grasses are now becoming the darlings of the perennial garden.
How Gardens Grow
One of the joys of summer is making time to read technical journals and publications that pile up on the floor that have been saved for these less hectic, lazy days to get new understandings of how gardens grow.
Invite Birds to Your Garden
Ideally, bird plantings should be a blend of trees, shrubs, vines and flowers that provide food over a long period.
Perennial Profile: Hosta Companions
Hostas have become almost synonymous with shade gardens, and with good reason: hostas are hardy, vigorous, and reliable.
Perennial Profiles: Hostas
There is no better way to brighten up a shady spot than by planting hostas.
An Illusion of Neatness: Garden Cleanliness
Some people’s gardens always look as though they were momentarily expecting Architectural Digest’s photographer. Others look as though they’ve been stirred up with a giant spoon and never tidied up.
Remembering the Gardens of Childhood
The gardens of one’s childhood are fleeting images of sunny times with loving parents or grandparents or neighbors. Memories return of mothers picking, arranging or enjoying the beauty of flowers. These memories are often closely intertwined with our current love of gardening.
Beware of Invasive Vines
If you have bare ground but don’t want more lawn, evergreen ground covers are very good.
Salt-Resistant Plants
Salt tolerance is different in each species, and even often among plants of the same species.