-
Recent Posts
Archives
Categories
Meta
Tag Archives: garden maintenance
Practical Spring Gardening Tips You May or May Not Have Heard
There are spring gardening tips and lists out there in books and in the blogosphere, as well as everywhere else. If you need to know what to do next, go ahead and refer to any of those many sources. Or … Continue reading
Posted in Garden Maintenance
Tagged blood meal, dandilions, dividing bulbs, dividing plants, Fiskars weed remover, garden design, garden maintenance, gardening tips, growing cuttings, heat wave, hydrangeas, mulch, pruning, rabbits eating tulips, skin cancer, solomon's seal, southern ontario, spring, squirrels in the garden, Toronto, Toronto area, transplanting, weeding
10 Comments
Keeping Asters Green
I am not a high-maintenance gardener, so sometimes when my plants just look great on their own I am thrilled. I plant things that don’t need a lot of babying with few exceptions. An exception, though, is Asters. They epitomize … Continue reading
Posted in Garden Design, Garden Maintenance
Tagged asters, autumn, bee balm, crumbling leaves, fall, fall colours, fall garden, fall garden cleanup, fungus, garden, garden design, garden maintenance, garden problems, garden tips, gardening, humidity, leaves dropping, leaves turning brown, low maintenance garden, mildew, monarda, nature, Ontario, phlox, plant debris, roses, rust, southern ontario, stems, Toronto
4 Comments
Five Great Reasons to Create Your New Garden in Late Summer/Early Fall
Spring through early summer are the busiest times for people to have garden plans made up and installed (writer excepted–garden fever begins in the dead of winter for this transplanted Vancouver Islander). Most people are excited by the warming weather … Continue reading
Posted in Garden Design, Garden Maintenance
Tagged allium, autumn, bulbs, crocus, english garden, establishing roots, fall, fall garden, flowering onion, garden design, garden maintenance, gardening, ideal time to plant, installing garden, landscaping, late summer garden, new garden, root growth, transplant, transplanting trees, watering
2 Comments