Cultivating Garden Style with Rochelle Greayer

What are those special ingredients that elevate a garden into a stylish and unforgettable space? What’s the best way to unleash your garden personality, and how can you create an outdoor place that’s uniquely your own? Just in time for another… [Continue Reading]

Cultivating Garden Style with Rochelle Greayer Cultivating Garden Style with Rochelle Greayer

Fenway Farms Scores Home Run for Red Sox

“Take me out to the ball game. Take me out with the crowd.” But forget about buying me “some peanuts and Cracker Jack,” as the 1908 Tin Pan Alley song by Jack Norworth and Albert von Tilzer recommends. I would much rather tour the new 5,000… [Continue Reading]

Fenway Farms Scores Home Run for Red Sox Fenway Farms Scores Home Run for Red Sox

Creating a Cottage Garden

A proper cottage garden, explains Oxford Dictionary, is defined as "an informal garden stocked typically with colourful flowering plants." And that's the type of garden I've created at my home (Zone 6B/7), as you can see above. From self-seeding poppies… [Continue Reading]

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Five Reasons Why Kids Should Garden

One of my favorite childhood memories was running around the garden until dinner time, chasing after lightning bugs and catching tadpoles. Sadly, too many kids spend most of their summer time indoors, playing on video games or watching TV. This lack… [Continue Reading]

Five Reasons Why Kids Should Garden Five Reasons Why Kids Should Garden

Nest in Style this Winter Solstice

December 21, 2009
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Photo by stevendepolo on Flickr Welcome winter solstice – the year’s longest night – in the Northern Hemisphere (exact Dec. 21, 2009 at 12:47 p.m. EST). From this point forward, the days will grow longer and the nights will shorten until the summer solstice in mid-June. Considering how cold and dark it can be at this […]

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The Snow-Storm

December 10, 2009
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With snow falling all over the nation this week, I couldn’t help think of a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It goes like this… “Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow; and driving o’er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight; the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river and the […]

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Part V: Favorite Winter Plants (Western Washington)

November 30, 2009
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Pieris japonica ‘Flaming Silver’ Winters in Western Washington are wet … pure and simple. The final stop of this multi-part series on Favorite Winter Plants may not be as cold as the other regions, but this lovely area definitely has its challenges, reports personal garden coach Christina Salwitz.

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Part IV: Favorite Winter Plants (North Carolina)

November 23, 2009

There may be a snow storm or two, but Raleigh, N.C. (Zone 7B) enjoys more moderate winters than the first three locations featured in this Favorite Winter Plants series. In fact, you can pretty much garden all winter long, reports garden writer and coach Helen Yoest. And she should know. Helen not only owns Gardening With Confidence, she also serves on the […]

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Part III – Favorite Winter Plants (Canada)

November 16, 2009

For part 3 of “Favorite Winter Plants,” we travel to Lake Ontario, Canada.  It takes a special plant to survive these rugged growing conditions, reports award-winning garden writer Doug Green (aka @DougGreen on Twitter). His garden is USDA Hardiness Zone 4 or 5, depending on the season and whether you’re in one of the property’s microclimates. But as Doug explains,” A winter plant […]

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Part II: Favorite Winter Plants (No. Idaho)

November 13, 2009

In part two of our “Favorite Winter Plants” series, we travel to the frigid region of Northern Idaho to show some of the wonderful winter plants that can add interest to these gardens in colder months. Dan Eskelson (aka @daneskelson on Twitter) began his horticultural training in the balmy hills of Santa Barbara, California. But these days […]

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Part I: Favorite Winter Plants (Maine Containers)

November 11, 2009

Winter is right around the corner, but that doesn’t mean your garden can’t still look beautiful. Many plants provide visual excitement in the colder months with colorful berries, patterned trunks, interesting textures and fabulous foliage. That’s why I asked five knowledgeable garden writers, coaches and designers from Canada and the United States to name some […]

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Winter Survival Tips From Five Pros

November 2, 2009
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Photo by gagilas The days are growing shorter. The temperatures are dropping. And old man winter will be here before we know it. Meanwhile, I can’t help but wonder how gardeners in much colder climates survive the dark, dreary days of winter. I’ll be honest with you. In my USDA Hardiness Zone 6B garden, winters […]

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The City of Trees Gets Colorful in Fall

October 26, 2009

One of the best places to see fall foliage in the United States may be in a place you wouldn’t expect: Boise, Idaho … also known as the City of Trees. To give you a peek, I shot pictures of Boise fall foliage using only my iPhone as a camera.

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A Chat with the Idaho Gardener

October 20, 2009

Mary Ann Newcomer, The Idaho Gardener Here’s a Little Confession: I was trained as a Master Gardener in Idaho, but as a newcomer to these growing conditions, I still have plenty to learn about gardening here. That’s why I was delighted to chat with another Newcomer recently . . . Mary Ann Newcomer, to be […]

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