Turning Over A New Leaf
Guest blogger, Emily Stashower, embraces the changes that fall brings, sharing memories and musings on the season.
It’s National Adopt-A-Dog Month: Get Your Garden Dog-Friendly With 5 Easy Tips
If you’re a dog owner or looking to become one, try these 5 tricks to protect your garden from destructive dog behavior and keep your dog entertained in the process.
Jessica’s Garden: Pumpkin Mania Has Hit
Pumpkin season is upon us! See how Jessica uses her freshly harvested pumpkins and get her recipe for pumpkin puree.
Arranged Marriages (of flowers, of course): The Color Wheel Crown
Autumn wins “the color wheel crown” by capturing six out of twelve of the famous wheel’s colors for its season! Autumn has marched from yellow-green through yellow, yellow-orange, orange, and red-orange not stopping until it has claimed red! What…
Fall-Planted, Spring-Flowering, “Dutch Bulbs”
Planning and a leap of faith: that’s what it takes to be successful with bulb planting. Planning, because you need to plant them in advance of when you need them, and a leap of faith because you have to believe…
The Dog and Pony Show is Winding Down, but the Party is Far From Over
As the sun gets lower in the sky and our days slowly begin to get shorter, plants are reacting to these subtle, seasonal changes by curbing their eagerness to please and focusing instead on hunkering down for the long haul. …
Jessica’s Garden: Better Late Than Never
The tomato season started off fairly disappointing for us this season. I had prepared myself for a let-down. I feared we’d only have enough to keep us going through eating them fresh. However, although our plants are beginning to show…
10 Shrubs and Vines for Fall Color
For some of us, trees take up too much space, and that’s fine – there are plenty of fantastic shrubs and vines the provide fall leaf color. Many are native and have added benefit to wildlife and are easy-care. I…
What Can I Plant for Fall?
Planting your garden isn’t just a spring thing! If you are wondering what you can plant in the fall, the answer will be “just about anything.” I am a little partial to a specific group of plants since I work…
Jessica’s Garden: Playing Catch-Up
This year, we spent the holiday weekend relaxing as a family; working on this and that without too rigid of an agenda. My husband and father spent some time hanging dry wall in a new room we are renovating while…
6 Trees for Fall Color
Sometimes I think those of us who live in parts of the U.S. with mixed-species deciduous forest take our autumnal show of colors for granted, especially here in the mid-Atlantic. I have visited several wonderful places around our country (and…
The Best Time to Plant a Tree…
I have said it many times before, the best time to plant a tree was 25 years ago and the second best time is today… The other day, my husband, Jon, my father in law, Marshal and our grandson decided…