Reader B.R. Olsen of Staunton writes, “My garden space cannot be located farther than 50 feet from a grove of black walnut trees. Is there any type of tomato that grows well in this environment? This space gets full sun from mid-morning on.”
An old gardening axiom says we should never plant a vegetable garden in [...]
Leading Swedish landscape architect Ulf Nordfjell drew his inspiration from Carl Linnaeus when working up the plant list for the ‘Tribute to Linnaeus’ Garden at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show. Commissioned by the National Tercentenary Committee in Stockholm in cooperation with the Embassy of Sweden and The Swedish Institute, the garden promises contemporary styling whilst [...]
Q:I HAVE a beautiful 10-year-old red Japanese maple that was
absolutely gorgeous last year. After the leaves turned brown, the maple shed two-thirds of the leaves around the middle of December.
The balance of the brown and curly leaves just hung on the tree. Finally, I found time in late January and stripped them off by hand.
The [...]
Join me for a cup of garden tea, won’t you?
Not real tea, China tea, which is somewhat limited in where it can be grown.
It’s no trouble at all, though, to grow and brew up a batch of mint tea.
Spearmint, peppermint, applemint, to name a few – almost all are hardy and easy to grow. [...]
Vertical garden is solution for small space, its simple and no need irrigation. Here’s the indoor vertical garden in Yountville Hotel, California designed by Kevin Smith and the architect Seth Boor. For a plants it using Tillandsia (members of the Bromeliad family) attached to metal rods which protrude from the wall. The visual effect of [...]
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