I was listening to an Instagram Live chat between two well-known British garden designers earlier this summer and the conversation turned to the color yellow, or as these Brits referred to it, eff off yellow. I’m cleaning it up a bit here as they used the f-bomb to describe the unwelcoming affect of yellow in…
I’ve partnered with the National Wildlife Federation’s Garden for Wildlife program for this post. All thoughts are my own. If you asked me 20 years ago what a native plant was, I probably would have said it was anything I couldn’t kill. Which pretty much summed up my awareness. In the beginning, I was like…
Chlorosis is pretty. I wish those dark green veins and yellow margins were an interesting attribute instead of a window into one of the affects of alkaline soil on an acid loving plant. Apparently, I’m not the only one having trouble locating the soil amendment I need to fix my chlorosis problems. June is the…
My entrance into the world of dahlias began last year with a few Instagram posts from various gardeners I follow and it took off from there. Big bodacious blooms filled their feeds, some in subdued pinks and yellows, others in saturated reds and purples. Isn’t that how most things come to be in the garden?…
If you’re like me, you’ve been buried in seed catalogs for the last few weeks, completely overwhelmed by the tens of thousands of possibilities concealed within those flimsy pages. I’ve since buttoned up my orders, mostly. There may be a few more stragglers in there but for the most part it’s done and I’m really…
I did it again. Bought more plants, that is. A few days ago, I was declaring my relief that the gardening season was coming to an end. All it took were the words “Buy One, Get One” and “Asters” and I was out the door, driving an hour south to one of my favorite places…
