Garden Design, Garden Makeover, Garden Coach
The “bones” of a garden are usually provided with two very different features: hardscape and shrubs. I’ll leave the hardscape to another post and address shrubs for now. Layers I think the thing I find the most essential in a perennial border or garden space is variety of heights. Even when my garden was very… Continue Reading →
Winter containers I’ve lately been looking at Pinterest “Winter containers”, and unsurprisingly, a lot of pins are containers designed by Deborah Silver, of Detroit Garden Works. She has a distinctive personal style–you can always identify her designs when you see a page of google images. Here are a few examples: So I decided to have… Continue Reading →
Mosquito Prevention–5 Things I don’t get a lot of mosquitos where I live, in fact, several of my windows don’t even have screens on them. But I hate a mosquito bite as much as the next person, so I was interested in a recent article about mosquito-repellant plants. Preventing an invasion, tho’, starts with knowing… Continue Reading →
Design Your Wildlife Garden We’ve had an overview of the Wildlife Garden with “How to Design the Wildlife Garden”. That covered a lot about Birds. Next were a bunch more B’s–Planning Your Wildlife Garden—Bees, Butterflies, Beneficials. Finally, let’s look at ponds and bogs. I’ve linked to NatureScape BC several times, and this is no exception: here’s… Continue Reading →
“If You Build It They Will Come” First of all, why should you bother with a “wildlife garden”? Providing habitat for native critters will not only benefit them, but you as well. The more diversity you have in your garden the more you’ll appreciate it and get out into it. Which as you know from… Continue Reading →
Fall Clean up–What not to do. It’s pretty late to be talking about fall clean up, but today it’s still sunny, and pretty cold for coastal BC (-1 right now), and it’s Sunday. So there might be a feeling that it’s now or never to clean up the garden. Make it “never”–or at least make… Continue Reading →
5 design tips for your hummingbird garden I’m obsessed. And like all obsessors, I’d love to drag other suckers into the vortex! Six years ago, when I moved into this house, I saw a hummingbird hovering around my Princess Alexandra rose. I went right out a bought a campsis radicans (red Trumpet Vine) reading that… Continue Reading →
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