Shade Doesn’t Have to Be Boring

Shady areas of any yard provide welcome refuge during steamy hot summers (like the one we just had). They also bring unexpected beauty and interest to low-lit areas. As the gardening season begins to wind down, stroll around your garden and look for areas that could benefit from more color and variety. We offer a broad array of perennials and shrubs that grow splendidly in shady to partly shady sites. Plant multiples of one type of plant to create a swath of color or repeat trios of different plant groupings to enjoy a mosaic effect with pleasing variations of color,…

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Bubbling With Ideas for Spring

With winter showing signs of an early withdrawl, some of us have been spending time sketching plans for gardens. Pen, paper and, if we’re feeling really fancy, colorful magic markers in hand, we play around with ideas for new borders or beds,…

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“Spring” in February

In the midst of a week when temperatures in the Northeast and many other parts of the country have been in the 60s, we’re seeing the effects of a sustained February warm-up in our gardens. Snowdrops are blooming here in…

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Caring for Cut Flowers

In the depths of winter, when color in the landscape is hard to come by and the flowers that filled our summer gardens exist only, for the time being, in our memories and imaginations, many of us decorate our homes…

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