Today’s Garden Ideas

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If you are thinking about growing a wildflower garden do not be fooled by all those seed companies promoting wildflowers in a can or roll. Chances are you will not be very successful going this rout. Nor, can you just simply scatter wildflower seeds and believe you will end up with a wildflower meadow. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: bellflower, blanket flower, coreopsis lanceolata, daylily, delphinium, dianthus, evening primrose, foxglove, Wildflower garden, wildflowers

Until quite recently obtaining shrubs to beautify your front yard landscaping was a tedious and difficult task. And often quite expensive. Today, thanks to the growing demand for flowering shrubs, shade loving shrubs, privacy shrubs and hardy and easy to grow shrubs you can find just about all you need at your local gardening store. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: azalea, cotoneaster, dianthus, dwarf blue spruce, dwarf Japanese red pine, easy to grow shrubs, euonymous, flowering shrubs, garden shrubs, Garden shrubs for the front yard, heather, hemlock, hinoki falso cypress, juniper blue star, privace shrubs, shade loving shrubs, shrub garden, shrubs, weeping cherry snow fountain

English cottage gardens are usually a hodge podge of classical heavily scented flowers and plants. There is no rhyme or reason to the design. You might have a Sweet William plant popping up in four or five different places. A clump of Delphinium may be blooming on one side of your garden and a clump of Foxglove on the other side. Pathways through the garden are often overgrown with groundcover or taller flowers and might be difficult to see as you make your way through the growth. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: ‘bath’s pink, ‘merton, chives, clematis, cleome, climbing rose, common witch hazel, cosmos, danse du feu, delphinium, dianthus, dill, dwarf apple, English Garden, feverfew, four o’clock, foxglove, jackmanii, old-fashioned weigla, scotch thistle, shrubby cinquefoil, sweet alyssum, sweet violet, sweet William, wonderland, wormwood

Nothing beats a beautiful well-tended garden with its perfectly trimmed bushes, weed free soil, and bright full blooms. However, if you are like me, you do not want to spend your entire weekend hedging, pruning, weeding, watering, fertilizing, deadheading and mulching. Yet, you still want a garden that is the envy of the neighborhood. If you are willing to put in a few hours of work one weekend you can have a glorious easy to care for garden with beautiful flowers and shrubs. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: ‘bath’s pink, ‘merton, chives, clematis, cleome, climbing rose, common witch hazel, cosmos, danse du feu, delphinium, dianthus, dill, dwarf apple, English Garden, feverfew, four o’clock, foxglove, jackmanii, old-fashioned weigla, scotch thistle, shrubby cinquefoil, sweet alyssum, sweet violet, sweet William, wonderland, wormwood