Making its debut this year is Luminary Sunset Coral tall garden phlox. I grew it last year as part of Proven Winners’ garden writer trial program and fell madly in love with it. The color is electrifying in the garden — so thrilling in fact, that I just had to add more plants this year….
You spell potato, Dan Quayle spells it P-O-T-A-T-O-E. Some of you may recall the Vice President’s 1992 gaffe making a 6th-grader misspell “Potato.” In the VP’s defense, however, he was using an incorrect flash card prepared by a teacher. Quayle later wrote in his memoirs, “I can’t overstate how discouraging and exasperating the whole event…
watering flowers Q: I recently heard that using distilled water on plants can benefit them. Is this true? I usually use harvested rainwater, and wondered if it’s worth making the switch. A: Watering plants, as you’ll already know, is a crucial part of plant care. But the type of water that you use can make…
A flowerbed beside a white wall, with mature shrubs, and alliums and agapanthus flowers. A former sloping garden, redesigned and terraced cottage garden in a village in Dorset, home of Judith and Michael Rust. Electroculture gardening and pyramid energy are doing the rounds on TikTok at the moment, and, while they might sound like the…
A popular meme circulating on social media proclaims, “You don’t stop gardening when you get old, you get old when you stop gardening.” Come to think of it, a lot of the most impressive landscapes I visit in the course of my job as a garden writer/author are tended by green-fingered folks who are seniors….
NORTH TEXAS (CBSNewsTexas.com) — With the summer heat expanding, pools have become one of the preferred places to escape the heat. So why not add some color to everyone’s favorite hangout? Container gardening is easy and flexible. There are literally thousands of combinations of flower and foliage color to play with. You can plant for…
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I have to confess that I believe “gardeners are special”. Gardening, like golf (another of my interests) can be enjoyed as a solitary or group endeavor. It is done in pleasant surroundings, is peaceful and contemplative, and can be done for a few minutes or for hours. Are you thinking work? Yes, it is work;…
