Don’t feel like a failure if you keep having to move plants. It’s part of “editing” and making your landscape better and better. Plus, plants like to take a ride in the wheelbarrow every now and then…
One of my favorite days of every year is cool-season vegetable-planting day. I usually try to get peas and onions in the ground sometime around St. Patrick’s Day (which I did this year), but the “big” day is typically the last Saturday of March. That’s when I can finally get out there and plant the […]
I never did like the cold, snow and ice (green easily beats white in my color book), but I’m “enjoying” it less as I rapidly age. That’s why my wife, Sue, and I have been trying to shorten winter the last few years by escaping to Florida for a few weeks, like so many other […]
Some states are more into gardening than others and have the lineup of superb public gardens to prove it. Pennsylvania is actually very high on that list, led by the Philadelphia area, which has the nation’s largest cluster of public gardens at nearly two dozen (most of which we’ve shown you via group bus tours). […]
Now that the 30 inches of snow is gone and washed into the water table, we’re getting a good look at how our landscape plants fared over winter. From what I’m seeing, it looks like things came out in good shape – at least better than the past two cold winters. Extreme as it was, […]
If you’re spending more time mowing the yard or just looking at it than actually using it, it’s time to rethink the way it’s designed.
Florida has some wild and weird plants that make our landscape fare seem boring.
The Pennsylvania Garden Expo has been canceled for 2016 and may be gone for good.
I have a hunch that this year’s Philadelphia Flower Show – happening March 5-13 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center – could be particularly fascinating. The theme is “Explore America,” a tie-in to the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service, which means the garden-builders will tap a library of 408 venues from Acadia to Yosemite […]
The last part of our best-new-plants-of-2016 series is best new trees, shrubs and woody vines. Here are some to check out…
