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I Love the Cityline Rio Hydrangea
Name: Hydrangea Cityline Rio – aka Hydrangea macrophylla 'Ragra' Type of Plant: A short Hydrangea with huge, deep blue flowers with a lime-green center. A plant for zones 6-8, best in part shade and one of the best deep blue flowers. Why I Love This: Last year this...
Using Strawberries As Groundcover
Since there is so much interest in edible landscaping, I thought I'd share how we grow strawberries: as groundcover. We planted a few of these spreading perennials on a sunny slope five or six years ago and they have taken it from there. If you're thinking of doing...
I Love Fuchsia ‘Gartenmeister Bonstedt’
Name: Fuchsia Gartenmeister Bonstedt Type of Plant: An easy, upright annual for full or part sun with trumpet-shaped coral flowers. Grows to about 18” high. Why I Love This: Constant flowering from June until hard frost, no deadheading, attracts hummingbirds…what...
Make A Rustic Trellis For Annual Vines
I wanted to grow some moonflower vine by my deck but there wasn't the perfect place to put a trellis. Unless I was willing to suspend something from the nearby deck framing. That open space, and some cedar branches, came together in the following weekend project....
A Fragrant June Bouquet? You Can Grow That!
If you want beautiful, fragrant cut flowers in early June, plant peonies, lady's mantle, nepeta, and hakon grass. (AKA Paeonia varieties, Alchemilla mollis, Nepeta racemosa 'Walker's Low', and Hakonechloa macra 'Aureola') These are all easy to grow perennials as long...
Rhubarb Custard
It is the season to harvest rhubarb. Since our temperatures in the Northeast dipped to return-to-spring lows, while I cut rhubarb I also dreamed of comfort food. Rhubarb custard, I decided as I was building a fire in the woodstove. Notes: This custard is best served...
Insects On My…
Sometimes when we see insects on our plants the response should be...nothing. There is no hard and fast rule for when to treat, but it's helpful to know that we don't always have to step in with a remedy. Sometimes treatment isn't necessary, sometimes what we do...
I Love Deutzia Chardonnay Pearls
Name: Deutzia gracilis ‘Duncan’ aka Deutzia Chardonnay Pearls. Type of Plant: A colorful small shrub for full sun to part shade, hardy in zones 5 to 8. Why I Love This: Anytime you can get color and interesting textures from shrub foliage you’re garden will look...
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