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Hot, dry summers can be brutal on perennial flower gardens. It's important to keep the gardens well watered and mulched.
These plants either are flowering now or have colorful fall foliage that will make your garden a portrait of beauty. Here are some of my favorite shrubs and perennials for fall.
There's an expression in the North called “stick season”. It's that time of year when most of the deciduous trees and shrubs have dropped their leaves but it hasn't started snowing yet. When you look at the landscape, it looks like a bunch of sticks!
When designing a landscape, one of the first types of plants to consider are the structural plants. These plants give your garden or landscape its “bones”. The best plants to start with are evergreens. Needled and broadleaf evergreen trees and shrubs can be anchors in your garden, can be used as screens and hedges, and can add color and texture. They complement other flowers and shrubs during the growing season and provide interest during our long, northern winters.
Wondering what you could be doing in your northern garden to help it flourish? Check here for tips each month with Northeast gardening expert, Charlie Nardozzi.
Winter provides time to refresh, reflect and ready ourselves for spring. Here’s how I’ll be starting off the new year.
I love January in the North. The holidays are over and I have time to sit back by the fire with my laptop and peruse the new varieties debuting this year. Let me tell you about six new varieties I've found so far that I think will be worth growing in our cold climate.
For many of us fall is great season to decorate before freezing weather and celebrate the holidays as temperatures cool off. For those of us in non-freeze zones fall is a good time to do your winter planting to help keep things looking fresh in your fabulous fall gardens for the winter!
Best for the West, that includes shrubs, perennials, and annuals that can handle the heat and dryness of the west coast climate.
