On the first blue-sky Saturday morning of spring, I said to Marjorie, “What I want is to take the first cup of coffee into the garden, walk around, talk about the coming year.” It seemed like a month of Sundays since we had done this. She said yes and there we were, each clutching a [...]
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 [...]
Think it’s impossible to have a beautiful yard that needs little care? Plenty of garden experts want to show you how to make this fantasy come true. Always filled with spectacular gardens, the New England Spring Flower Show this year explores an increasingly popular trend – designing with hardy plants that do well in dry [...]
To attract the biggest amount of butterflies to your yard, you need plants for every stage of the butterfly’s life. Butterflies need somewhere to lay eggs, food plants for the caterpillars, somewhere to form a cocoon and nectar sources for the adult.
Most butterflies live 10 to 20 days. Some live no longer than 3 to [...]
With all the work you do to keep your property beautiful from spring to autumn, why let your garden die down in winter? By selecting hardy plants that produce flowers when most other plants are dormant, you can bring color and interest into your garden even when the days are colder. The meaning of “winter [...]
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