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29.07.2024 - 05:26 / finegardening.com / GPOD Contributor
Happy Monday GPODers!
We’re starting this week off with a garden that looks magical no matter the hour.
Hi, I am Terry Redling and live in Gillette, NJ, a semi rural suburb about 28 miles outside of NYC. We used to be zone 6b now we have a 7a garden. I am a geriatric physician by day (as well as at night when on call) and enjoy the meditation and beauty of our garden to de-stress and renew. I love all types of lilies (including hemerocallis , or commonly known as daylilies). Deer are a big issue, but the netting is barely visible and keeps the deer off the flowers. My husband Jeff and I love to spend time outside tending our property and our vegetable garden, which he built in 2 tiers over the years. We enjoy sitting by our fire pit or lounging in the hot tub surrounded by all this beauty.
In this first installment of Terry’s flower-filled garden, we’ll take a look at all of the color and vibrancy that can be found during the day. Tomorrow, we’ll be back to see how serene the space is once the sun starts going down.
The tiered vegetable garden bed that Terry’s husband Jeff built—what a wonderful concept! Tiered ornamental beds are very common, but it’s not often you see them utilized for edible beds. What a great way to take space that is tricky to grow on, and make it productive.
As Terry mentioned above, she is a real lily lover and she included some close-up shots of some of her favorites. This particular stunner is a ‘Zeba’ lily (Lilium ‘Zeba’, Zones 3–8) known for its incredible coloring and relation to the Nepal lily, which is notoriously hard to grow. It also has an incredible evening fragrance, which is perfect for Terry’s garden that she so often enjoys at night.
Flowers galore, and that barely-there fencing
Join us this summer as we explore some of the UK’s best 2-for-1 Gardens to visit in August, for fun days out with all the family. Whether it’s an adventure playground or woodland trail for the kids, or a rose garden or restored Elizabethan garden for the horticulturalists, there is plenty to enjoy at these gardens. Visit using your 2-for-1 Gardens card to save money on your trips to all these wonderful gardens.
Extreme heat waves are stressful for almost every type of plant in your garden, from flowers and vegetables to shrubs and trees—but especially for container-grown plants.
This small woody shrub belonging to the mint family is grown for its fragrant, edible, and medicinal leaves and flowers. Growing hyssop has a host of health benefits and is also useful in maintaining a thriving, pest-free garden. Let’s dig in!
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WHEN MOST OF US think of growing herbs each spring, what we probably put into our shopping cart, whether from online seed catalogs or at the garden center, are the culinary must-haves: the basil, the parsley, the dill and such.
Hey GPODers! Today we’re back in the flower-filled garden of Heidi Weirether. We first saw her garden a little earlier on in the summer (you check check out that post here: Heidi’s Colorful Garden in Fairfield County) and it’s incredible to see how much has changed in a month’s time! As with much of the northeast this year, Heidi is experiencing incredible hydrangea blooms—but that is just the tip of the floral iceberg in her sensational garden:
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Vicks vaporub is a popular household name manufactured by The Procter & Gamble Company. It is quite effective in clearing out the nasal passages thanks to its camphor, menthol, and eucalyptus oil content. However, its uses are not limited to this, and there are a few Vicks VapoRub Uses in the Garden, too! Let’s have a look!