Just as I was losing hope after Harrisburg bulldozed a non-profit group’s attempt to grow a community garden in a crime-plagued neighborhood, along came the Plummers. This young couple from suburban Spring Grove (York County) has no connection with the infamous Harrisburg bulldozing on North Sixth Street… none other than they’re the antithesis […]
Who would bulldoze somebody else’s vegetable garden? In case you haven’t heard, the city of Harrisburg would. And did. Last week, city workers scraped clean the lot at North Sixth and Curtin streets, a site that had been filled with more than $1,000 worth of new planter boxes installed in April by the non-profit Green […]
I got a look last week at one of the rising stars (in more ways than one) of the planted world — New York’s High Line. The High Line is a once-abandoned, elevated Manhattan rail line that’s been turned into a park — or “aerial greenway,” as some call it. It’s a […]
What happens when George’s yard is the subject of a garden tour? First, buckets of sweat, then a debate between “cute” and the plants.
Now that the worst of summer heat should be over (risky words, I know), now’s a good time to freshen up the yard for fall. Fall is my second favorite time in the landscape. But it takes a little bit of clipping, weeding and replanting to make that happen. Now’s when […]
Sometimes it’s easiest to start from scratch. Once landscapes (like people) wear out or grow bigger than they ought to, it sometimes makes more sense to yank and start over than to try and fine-tune your way back into business. That’s the approach we’re taking at my son and daughter-in-law’s place in […]
A virulent new strain of downy mildew disease threatens to wipe impatiens off our gardening map. And that’s a shame because this plant is our favorite annual and our go-to choice for shade.
You can’t just put any plant wherever you like. The better you can figure out the conditions you’ve got and match plants that suit that, the less trouble you’ll have with dead and struggling plants. That’s not always, though… even for the Governor’s Residence staff.
Fences sometimes are a necessity when fast privacy is in order, especially in small yards and packed-in developments where bare decks seem like stages. While fences get the job done, they can act more as prison walls if you don’t dress them up. Nobody does this better than the city gardeners on […]
My Patriot-News garden column this Thursday will be about the new perennial trial garden opening at Delaware’s Mt. Cuba Center (http://connect.pennlive.com/user/gweigel/posts.html). This native-focused public garden is test-growing hundreds of different varieties of coreopsis, coralbells, baptisia and more in what will be an ongoing trial ground that all can see. You can even vote […]