Today Alice Fleurkens is sharing her Sweaburg, Ontario, garden with us. We’ve visited Alice’s garden before, so if you’d like to see more, check out these posts: Good Friends Make a Great Garden and Fall to Winter. This corner of the garden has a pretty spectacular display from an incredible ‘Molton Fire’ amaranth (Amaranthus tricolor
Garden Design
Today we’re off to San Diego to visit with Catherine Dickerson. One of the things I love about growing lots of flowers is the abundance of bouquets that come from the necessary trimming and cleaning up. I used to complain that most of my work here in San Diego is hacking and trimming. Now I
For those who are a little confused by this episode’s theme let us try to explain. Yes, all garden beds are built with plants. But, there are certain plants that are such solid performers that they are the perfect jumping off point for building a bed. These are not the dramatic focal points that catch
There are several tools that every gardener should have. Here are the basics as well as some items that can go on your wish list. A garden cart does the heavy lifting A sturdy garden cart makes hauling bags of manure and carloads of new plants a breeze. Gardener’s Supply Company’s classic garden cart has
Hello, Fine Gardening. It’s Jojo again (Jojo’s Lancaster Garden), and do I have a phenomenal flower tour for you! The apple does not fall far from the tree. I learned everything from my spectacular, beautiful mother. She is masterful in everything she does, including flower gardening. She is a skilled decorator, flower gardener, candlemaker, and
Today we’re off to New Jersey, where Rebecca Cullen is sharing some scenes from her garden. She’s gardened in the same place for four decades, and we’ve visited her garden before (Four Decades in a Garden). Cheery yellow pansies (Viola × wittrockiana, cool-season annual) fill this sweet little planter. This is such an unusual use
Carla Z. Mudry is a frequent GPOD contributor of beautiful images from her garden in Malvern, Pennsylvania. If you want to look back on how it looked during winter, you can start here: End of the Year at Carla’s. Today, however, we’re celebrating how it looks in spring. Welcome back to my garden! Daffodils, narcissus,
Caroline Williams is sharing photos from her Louisiana garden today. We’ve visited her garden before, so start here—Relax in the Garden—if you want to see her garden in other seasons. The sign at Caroline’s front entry says “Welcome,” and the over-the-top abundance of flowers echoes the same sentiment! Lots of roses are coming into bloom,
While soils vary considerably across the Southern Plains, many gardeners are faced with the challenge of growing plants in heavy clay soil. This may be due to the natural composition of local soil or the removal of the top layer of soil during construction. It is unfortunate that healthy topsoil is commonly displaced to build
One of our iconic trees here in Southern California is the oak (Quercus spp. and cvs., Zones 4–11). Whether they are grown as stand-alone specimens or in a grove, the beauty of these trees is awe-inspiring. If you have an oak in your yard, you understand this and will want to do your part to
Today we’re visiting with Maureen Budny in North Reading, Massachusetts. Maureen is an amateur photographer and has shared some of her photos with us before (A Photographer’s Eye in the Garden). She sent in some wonderful photos from different seasons. This is a stunningly beautiful shot of very unusual fall color. The shrub here is
Today Eric Sternfels is taking us to visit a beautiful community-created garden in Philadelphia called Ned Wolf Park. He introduced us to this lovely garden before (A Garden Made by a Community ), and I’m excited to take a trip back. A few years ago you featured an ornamental community garden in Northwest Philadelphia, in
Today we’re off to Apalachin, New York, to visit with Jane Watkins. This winter was a particularly hard one for my Zone 5b garden in upstate New York. We received over 100 inches of snow for the season; one storm just before Christmas dumped nearly 40 inches. But spring is finally here, and my gardens
The narrow window between when the snow melts and the trees begin to leaf out is the ideal time to enjoy a wide range of native spring ephemerals in our Midwest gardens. They steal the show in shady and wooded areas and then retreat in the heat of summer before other, later-emerging plants take over.
Today’s photos are from Virginia Sherry. I’m writing to you from Staten Island, the greenest borough of New York City, where I have gardened for over 60 years. I’d like to share information and recent photos about one of our borough’s treasures: the 13-acre Greenbelt Native Plant Center, a nursery, greenhouse, and seed-bank complex. Its
Today we’re off to Baltimore to visit with Erin! Erin is a busy mother of three but somehow manages to grow a beautiful garden and share lots of photos of her successes (and sometimes failures) on her instagram @aterinshouse A perfectly grown tomato seedling! Starting your own tomatoes from seed can be tricky, but Erin
Spring has long ago sprung and now that all the pruning, dividing, and mulching is done we’re ready to plant up our containers. Like many of you, we are tempted to try something new every year and sometimes end up with a plant that is worthwhile. But we always make sure to incorporate a few
Today Jason and Grace are sharing their garden with us. Our garden is located in Long Island, New York. We really started working on planting in the summer of 2019. The backyard is bi-level and divided in thirds. One-third is lawn off of the house, then the slope up which is the garden bed, and
Today we’re off to Durham, North Carolina, to visit with Mary Zesk Thigpen. Here are several photos of my gardens and yard. They are mostly from the shade gardens and side yard given the time of year. I take pride in using a push mower and mowing my own lawn, which drives my husband nuts
Today we’re off to Boonsboro, Maryland, to visit a beautiful flower and herb farm! It is called Native Mountain Farm, and you can see more of it by following the farm’s instagram. A glorious bouquet of double peach daffodils. Though the classic daffodil is a bright yellow trumpet, there are many forms—like this frilly champagne confection—that