Mulching your vegetable garden helps maintain soil moisture and reduces evaporation. It also blocks weed seeds from seeing the sunlight & sprouting, which means a whole lot less work for you. Want to know just how much work? *Most weed species are prolific manufacturers,...
Planting in multiples makes for a showier garden. ‘Gumdrop’ gardens (one of everything) can cause indigestion. Odd number groupings (three, five, seven) create more natural, flowing impressions than using a lot of even numbers. In general, the smaller a plant’s size, the more you...
Creating vertical interest in the garden is another dynamic design element. The eye is drawn upward and the sky becomes a ‘borrowed view’. Flower or foliage covered trellises, arbors, and pergolas work nicely. So do tall perennials like Thalictrum ‘Lavender Mist’ or ‘Slendide’ (6′-8′),...
Well placed urns, benches, containers, bird baths, statuary and other objects allow the eye to take a refreshing break from moving among flowers and foliage. I love using large pottery pieces or antique urns in the garden. The objects provide a dynamic change, not...
Yes. Repetition in the garden is a good thing. Repeating the same plant (or color) at various intervals creates a rhythm and ties one or more gardens together.
by Kerry Ann Mendez, Perennially Yours
Color is a powerful design tool. Hot colors (red, yellow, orange, fuchsia) grab our attention quickly. These bold colors excite and appear closer than they really are. White is also considered a bold color. Cool colors (blue, silver, purple) are calming, appear farther away...
Yes, they will be in bloom this year. Growers were able to peel back the greenhouses and pot up roses in early March due to the snowless and warmer than usual winter. Some of the hardy shrub roses we carry are Knockouts, Drifts &...
I had a visitor/customer come to the nursery a couple weeks ago, who was a succulent collector. She was looking for a donkey tail succulent that we had in just a 6 inch hanging basket and told me that she would be taking it...