Be honest and go into your yard with this checklist. If you have most of these plants, it’s time to shake it up a little and add a bit of pizazz to your garden. These are the top 10 overused plants in New England or at least that is my assessment without any formal surveying [...]
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Lil’ Loafer Trailer, originally uploaded by Ursula Haigh. Share
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Carole Brown, from Ecosystem Gardening, a wonderful blog that covers wildlife, conservation and ecosystem gardening tagged me for the Honest Scrap Award. That means I have to tell you you 10 things about myself that you would not find out about me on my blog. So here goes. 1. I have two wonderful daughters, ages [...]
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I always have notebooks handy so I can jot down thoughts and ideas as I read all my gardening books. This year, I have a new year’s resolution to try and improve my drawing skills by sketching a few times a week so I needed a few of these. Thanks to the blog A Little [...]
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Mountain Mint on the NY High Line. Another plant I fell in love with this year is Mountain Mint or Pycanthemum muticum. Yes because it is a native. Yes because it has great foliage. Yes because it is fragrant. But mostly because my planting idol, Piet Oudolf, used it on the High Line. And it [...]
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I’ve been studying plants as a professional for more than five years and over that time, I somehow evolved into a plant snob. I don’t really feel bad about it and in fact I wish that more people with front yards to landscape would become snobs too. It would really minimize the number of ”landscaper’s specials” out there. You know [...]
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How shocked was I to see Witch Hazels blooming at Boston’s Logan airport when I arrived home from vacation with my kids. "Come here and take a look at these!", I shouted to my family. They rolled their eyes. I was thrilled and delighted that airport authorities would plant something so delightful, something with winter [...]
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I hate mulch and I say that with all of my heart. I know that when properly applied it maintains moisture and suppresses weeds and when it breaks down it feeds the soil. But it is absolutely one of the most abused practices in this business and I cannot imagine how it got this bad [...]
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