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Planting Grafted Container Roses in Cold Climates
As I mentioned to Elizabeth, I’ve been busy planting roses. I received nine bareroot roses this spring from the generous folks at David Austin Roses. Three each of three varieties. I planted the three...
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How Much Soil Amendment Do You Need?
Mud season is over and your soil is finally drying out, and you’re contemplating adding soil amendments to your vegetable bed or mulch to your ornamental beds. The question is: how much do you need?...
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Mulch Can Kill Trees
Mulch can kill trees–that sounds kind of extreme, doesn’t it? But it caught your attention, right? I suppose it would be more accurate to say improper mulching can kill trees, but as I look around me,...
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How to Have Fun with the New Hardiness Map
Since I just got done telling you what the new USDA Hardiness Map is not good for, I thought I should at least show you how to have some fun with it. Okay, not rolling on the floor laughing fun....
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A River of Snowdrops? You Can Grow That!
We noticed something about our new house this spring: no snowdrops! I set out last week to rectify that omission. My “river” of snowdrops at our old house was fifteen years in the making, but you can...
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Year-round Uses for A Cold Climate Greenhouse
(Editor’s note: Neil Moran wrote North Country Gardening seven years before Cold Climate Gardening got started. I asked him to share what he’s learned since building his greenhouse.)Photo by Neil...
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Crocuses in the Lawn: Planning
Crocuses in the lawn were not originally in my garden plans for this year. I knew I wanted to dig a lot of daffodils from my old garden and I would be replanting them in the fall. I suspected I would...
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Crocuses in the Lawn: Planting
Is This A Good Place to Plant Bulbs? In my previous post on crocuses in the lawn, I explained why I chose the site I did. It had southern exposure, so the snow melted early there, and was near enough...
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Fairy Gardens: Preparing Them for Winter plus Book Giveaway
A few key accessories can evoke the winter season. photo credit: Xuong Do, Happy Photos They may look delicate with their dainty wings and ephemeral personalities, but don’t let fairies and their...
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Garden Epiphanies
Gardening experience, for the most part, is accrued bit by bit, as decisions are made to do this chore before the other, plants die and we know why–or we don’t–and mental notes are made about what is...
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How to Rescue a Plant with Yellow Leaves
This ‘Josef Lemper’ hellebore needs help. I’m going to do my best. Because my ‘Josef Lemper’ hellebore was turning yellow, I decided to contact my source for advice. This plant was sent to me to try...
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Stone Puzzle: The Front Walk Emerges
The path project, on hold for weeks, finally took a step forward this past weekend. The split blue stone from the quarry arrived last week, three large pallets worth. The stone came in a variety of...
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The Front Walk Is Finished
Yep, finished. Finit. Done.Last weekend the last stage of the front walk project was completed. Every stone had to be leveled and the gaps between stones filled in.First remove a paving stone that...
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How to Pull Your Potted Plants Through the Winter
If you didn’t plant ‘em, you’ve got to protect ‘em.It happens to all of us. At least, it happens to me and a lot of other gardeners I know. Winter is right around the corner and you have all these...
View ArticleHow To Make Garden Beds Without Too Much Fuss
When I first started gardening, the “proper” way to prepare a garden bed was double digging. I wouldn’t recommend that for anything except really long-lived plants, like peonies and asparagus. These...
View ArticleWhat Every Cold Climate Gardener Should Know About Growing Kumquats
A guest post about Meiwa kumquat trees for a blog about gardening in cold climates? Oh, yes. If you have a sunny spot in your yard in summer and a south- or south-west-facing window in your house,...
View ArticleHow to Analyze An Area of Your Yard to Improve It: The Parking Pad Bed
In case you are just joining in: About two-and-a-half years ago our family moved from our long-time rural home to a different 19th-century farm house about twenty-five minutes from our previous one. I...
View ArticleMake That Lingering Snow Earn Its Keep
The snow is melting, but not fast enough to suit me. I’ve already taken pictures of where the snow melts first, so I know where to plant my spring-flowering bulbs this fall. In the spirit of making...
View ArticleVideo Mishaps: Garden2Blog Adventure with P. Allen Smith
If you’ve been following my back page, you probably already know that I’ve been invited to the 2014 version of P. Allen Smith’s Garden2Blog. I’ll be joining twenty-plus other bloggers for two...
View ArticleStop Traffic With These Daffodils
True confession: I have a secret desire to create a garden so spectacular that it will stop traffic. I know that’s not realistic. For one thing, we don’t have much traffic. If ten cars go by in an...
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