Designing a Perennial Garden to Bloom All Summer part 1
September 2, 2010 by Doug
Filed under Design, Featured, Perennials
Without further ado, here’s the first video in the two-part series on designing a perennial flower bed to bloom all summer.
Why I Garden
One of the delights in my life is my morning ritual of sitting outside – barefoot – with pen and notebook – drinking my morning coffee – in the garden. I can watch the sun change shadows from deep purple to gold to bright sunlight. I can hear the loons and gulls out in the [...]
Advanced Gardening Tips
Here’s a mini-series of advanced gardening tips for you. It’s a 3-week (free) series of tips delivered right to your inbox. I’ll look forward to hearing whether you like them or can use them. Japanese Iris
Garden Design Series of Articles
I want to tell you that I’ve just uploaded a series of garden design posts from a few really good garden-writer friends. Let me suggest you check out the articles (links below) and make comments there using the links below the articles. You may be surprised when the author responds. Yvonne Cunnington has a marvellous [...]
Garden Disaster
Taken directly from the Horticultural NewsWire Service Headline: Head Gardener Doug Green admits garden is out of control. Body Head Gardener Doug Green admits garden is out of control and liable to create massive amounts of damage to bank account. Green, no stranger to gardening disasters of immense proportions admits his latest garden has gone [...]
Which Three Flowering Plants Would You Use?
If you could only use three flowering plants in your entire garden, which ones would they be? I was thinking about this as part of my own garden design process as I get set to relaunch a brand new garden. This garden is going to be a major effort over the next few years both [...]
Garden Biodiversity
I’ve just finished reading and absorbing one of the most fascinating research reports in recent memory. It has to do with biodiversity – how different species all manage (or not) to live together in an environment. Traditionally, we’ve thought that an environment has a certain carrying capacity (the ability to support life) and all species [...]
