Juicy and Sweet Tips for Starting Your Own Berry Patch

There is no surefire way to rid your garden of the possibility of a deer buffet.As the evening falls, the four-legged rats – *ahem

It took me far too long to discover the beauty and special quality of the shade garden. Since I’ve always been into those tough, hard-scrabble plants that eke out a living in any condition, the idea of a garden full of particular and at times sensitive plants was not of interest to me.But as I’ve gotten older, I’ve discovered a keen appreciation for these gar

A mainstay in many shade gardens, astilbe will be at its best when given the right food at the right time.We link to vendors to help you

When you find a long-blooming annual eager to mound into a big lump of fragrant flowers, you remember it, add it to your garden year after year, and generally find any excuse to use it that you can get away with.Ladies and gentlemen, sweet alyssum is that flower. And if you aren’t f

I’m torn on this one.On the one hand, I understand the indis

Beets are a staple in many gardens. As root vegetables, you’ve got an opportunity to maximize your growing space by adding companions for your beets, so let’s take a look at 15 of the best options!These root vegetables need at least six

It just isn’t summer in the northeast without Japanese beetles (Popillia japonica) tearing through raspberries, roses, and other plants gardeners tend to hold near and dear.Their voracious appetite is matched in intensity with an innate difficulty to e

Morning glories are the radish of the flowering vine family, easy to grow and fast, to boot.Most of the types of common morning glory, or Ipomoea p

Few elements in any garden manage to elicit the same reaction as a well-placed water feature. It conjures calm and can tie together an entire landscape.Go on, close your eyes and imagine the trickling sound of water while

One of my earliest memories involves planting a spruce tree.We grew up in a very rural part of Pennsylvania, so when I say that my d

Whenever I am introduced to someone new and the inevitable, “So what do you do for a living?” question pops up, I get to share that I am a gardener and a writer.“Oh!” they exclaim, “It must be great to

The common morning glory is an easy-to-grow ornamental flower that’s tolerant of a variety of conditions, a voracious grower that opens its blooms wide in the morning only to wilt by the afternoon.Requiring little care, it’s the annual groundcover and tr