Our tips & advice to keep your garden beautiful!
I worked Francesca Clarke at AOL's DIY Life Network on a feature story about creating green structures with trees and shrubs for privacy in your garden and outdoor spaces. There are many options available for all budgets and timelines, depending on how soon do you need a privacy screen from a neighboring home or structure and how quickly you want to block unwanted [...]
Flowers All Summer Long If you cut your flowers instead of dead-heading them, they'll flower for twice as long. This will leave you with a beautiful garden space filled with colorful, scented blooms throughout the summer. Here are some of my favorites: Crocosmia, pictured below, adds an exotic touch to your favorite home grown arrangements. This Gladiolus relative [...]
Fall is a great season for family time in the garden. One fun way to teach children about nature is to purchase different colored flowering bulbs to plant in your garden for next spring. The best time to get your bulbs into the ground is a 3-4 weeks before the soil freezes, so this is a perfect time to start planning your upcoming day in the garden. After choosing which [...]
Garden Shed Inspiration for Better Homes & Gardens I want to build a new garden shed in my backyard this summer. This is an idea I had last summer and it never happened, so I'm moving it to the top of the "to do" list for this year. Most homeowners will agree, there's no such thing as [...]
Native vs. Exotic Native Plants are defined as any plants that occurred in North America before European settlement. Exotic Plants, or non-natives, are those not originally located in North America and your specific region. Plants that are native to where you live have evolved and adapted to your local conditions. Once established, they require very little attention, very little watering, and they're resistant [...]
Can-Can Orange Calibrachoa Looking to add some fantastic color to your garden spaces, but also want something new? Add an eye-catching splash of orange to your beds, borders, and containers with Can-Can Orange calibrachoa. Offering lots of bold tangerine flowers marked with dark red-orange veins, this flower can take full sun, but the trade is it [...]
Green Living Tips - Rain Barrels! Landscape Architects have been on the cutting edge of combining sustainable and green trends with land use planning for decades. Now there are numerous affordable green garden steps you can take in your own garden spaces that will greatly impact our environment. Today our Green Living tip falls into the Water Conservation category; recycle water by [...]
New Colors Can Transform your Garden An exciting and inexpensive way to bring the "pop" back into your garden spaces is to add new colors to your existing color pallette for a nice dramatic change. Each winter we look forward to new and interesting color ideas for the upcoming year. There have been new Petunia colors over the past [...]
Environment and Energy Saving Tips -- Plant Trees A thoughtful way to live a greener life is to make your landscape eco-friendly and plant trees. The addition of a tree in your land- scape is an immediate green step you can take as trees absorb CO2 and other dangerous gasses while they replenish the atmosphere with oxygen. Canopy trees, and Deciduous trees that grow tall and [...]
A Sophisticated Lady As we approach April, you should already be thinking about your summer flowers, and beautiful Phlox 'Miss Lingard' is a mid-summer GardenWise favorite! With a spectacular clump-forming habit, 'Miss Lingard' has spikes of sweetly scented, refined pure white flowers that are disease resistant, so you won't have to deal with that powdery mildew mess you sometimes get with other types of Phlox. Phlox [...]
