Blue Dahlias: A Stunning Addition to Your Garden
Blue dahlias, with their striking hues and intricate petal formations, have captivated gardeners and floral enthusiasts alike. While the color blue is…
Simple Seed Starting Using Winter Sowing
After a hectic year of non-stop landscaping work, I have some free time and discovered ‘winter sowing. I started doing it last winter on…
Christmas dried flowers
It’s that time of year when we run out of all the fresh flowers in our garden and turn to those we dried or preserved for the long…
Welcoming mud wasps to the garden
Are mud painting wasps dangerous? At all!When I started making my garden more wildlife-friendly a couple of years ago, I never dreamed that…
A Very Retro Christmas at Longwood Gardens
Going to Longwood Gardens in Brandywine Valley in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania has been a long-standing tradition in my family for many years.…
Simplified Christmas centerpiece
About the only time I have people sitting down for a full dinner at a dining table in my house is at Christmas and I need a spectacular…
Holly for the holidays
McLean Nursery is getting ready for a great Christmas decorating season! Hundreds of fluffy festive bows hang from the workshop ceiling and…
Succulent Pumpkin Centerpiece Made Easy
An easy-to-make centerpiece for your fall-themed table, using a beautiful pumpkin, can be prepared in half an hour. By integrating dried…
PawPaws: America’s Best Kept Secret
Papayas, which taste like a mix of bananas and mango, have a tropical flavor, totally unexpected where they are native: the Mid-Atlantic,…
Pumpkin decoration in 10 ways
Celebrate the fall season with these top 10 ways to decorate pumpkins. From mini chalk-painted pumpkins to gorgeous hand-painted marble…
Sweet Annie – Versatile Aromatic Everlasting
Sweet Annie, Artemisia annuaIt is an herb that I remember from the seventies and eighties. In the fall, wreaths of intensely scented green…