Fighting with Japanese beetles
This week, Japanese beetles showed up in the garden. They are the ones with the green heads and copper bodies, about a half-centimetre...
Incorporating Art in your garden design
Incorporating Art into your garden is a great way to express your personal taste in your backyard or front garden. From the follies of...
Deadheading spent flowers keeps more blooms coming
Many plants—and most annual bedding plants like geraniums, petunias, and begonias—will re-bloom if you deadhead them. Deadheading spent...
The “5 Fs” of great garden design
The “5 Fs” of garden design are used by garden designers to take into account the many aspects needed in a successful planting plan. A...
Treating sap-sucking scale in your garden
Gardening teaches you to be observant and to be patient. A case in point: One way to look at your garden is to admire your own...
