• Home
  • Contact
  • Site Map
George Weigel - Central PA Gardening
  • Landscape 1
  • Landscape 2
  • Landscape 3
  • Landscape 4
  • Garden Drawings
  • Talks & Trips
  • Patriot-News/Pennlive Posts
  • Buy Helpful Info

Navigation

  • Storage Shed (Useful Past Columns)
  • About George
  • Sign Up for George's Free E-Column
  • Plant Profiles
  • Timely Tips
  • George’s Handy Lists
  • George's Friends
  • Photo Galleries
  • Links and Resources
  • Support George’s Efforts


George’s new “50 American Public Gardens You Really Ought to See” e-book steers you to the top gardens to add to your bucket list.

Read More | Order Now





George’s “Pennsylvania Month-by-Month Gardening” helps you know when to do what in the landscape.

Read More | Order Now







George’s “Survivor Plant List” is a 19-page booklet detailing hundreds of the toughest and highest-performing plants.

Click Here






Has the info here been useful? Support George’s efforts by clicking below.




Looking for other ways to support George?

Click Here

Tips and How To’s Category

George’s Garden Predictions

March 4th, 2025

   This week’s futuristic-leaning Philadelphia Flower Show is exploring the theme of “Gardens of Tomorrow.”    Many of the show’s landscapers, florists, and student display-builders are interpreting where they see plants and gardening heading.    The theme also got me thinking about gardening’s future in our little corner of the world.    I think it’s […]

Read More »


The Best New Trees and Shrubs of 2025

February 4th, 2025

   A cold-hardy banana tree with maroon striped leaves, a snowbell tree that reblooms, and several more ever-higher-performing hydrangeas are among the most interesting new trees and shrubs hitting the market for the 2025 growing season.    Growers, local garden centers, and other plant experts mentioned the following 15 choices for my annual wintertime four-part, […]

Read More »


The Best New Perennial Flowers of 2025

January 28th, 2025

   A new line of high-performing mixed-species peonies, a super-sized new salvia, and several new varieties of pollinator favorites highlight the list of interesting new perennials debuting in the 2025 growing season.    Growers, local garden centers, and other plant experts picked the following 12 choices for my annual January four-part, best-new-plants series.    The […]

Read More »


Gardening Trends of 2025

January 7th, 2025

   Nature-friendly gardening seems to be graduating from mere trend to a lasting and widespread mainstream movement.    That’s the prevailing development that gardening trend-watchers see as we head into 2025, with interrelated facets of that movement – including native plants, pollinator gardens, and less-perfect lawns – all growing and dominating how we view yard […]

Read More »


How to prune summer-blooming shrubs

April 8th, 2013

End of winter or very early spring is the time to prune those summer-blooming shrubs, such as butterfly bush, caryopteris, beautyberry and rose-of-sharon. This how-to takes a step-by-step look at pruning a tree-type hydrangea as a good example.

Read More »


The Basics of Tree Pruning in Winter

February 19th, 2013

Here’s a rundown on how to prune a tree in winter… which branches to cut and where to cut them.

Read More »


Plant-Friendly Ice-Melting

January 5th, 2013

Rock salt used to melt ice can be a problem for lawns and plants. Here’s a video that gives you some ideas on better ways to get rid of that ice.

Read More »


How Not to Kill a Poinsettia

December 14th, 2012

Poinsettias are easy (and beautiful) potted plants that should last weeks into the new year — if you know a couple of care tips that are important to avoid killing them.

Read More »


How to Make a Holiday Wreath from Yard Prunings

December 9th, 2012

Susanna Reppert-Brill of The Rosemary House in Mechanicsburg shows George two good ways to make a holiday wreath out of trimmings from plants around the yard.

Read More »


Picking a Fresh Christmas Tree… and Keeping It That Way

November 21st, 2012

Make sure you pick a fresh Christmas tree to start with, and then follow these steps to keep the needles on your tree through Christmas.

Read More »


« Older Ramblings and Readlings

  • Home
  • Garden House-Calls
  • George's Talks & Trips
  • Disclosure

© 2025 George Weigel | Site designed and programmed by Pittsburgh Web Developer Andy Weigel using WordPress