My New Garden
One of the things I’ve been working on and playing around with is my new virtual garden. We picked up the property a year or so ago and it was quite a mess with weeds everywhere, some really funky (bad) designs and tons of unfinished construction. I think the economy wrecked the planning for [...]
Garden Photography Contest
Garden Photography Contest
Here are the guidelines for entering the contest. Please read them all because entering the wrong contest area will disqualify your picture – it will simply not be uploaded.
Prizes:
10 Grand Prizes:
There are 10 boxes of bulbs to be given away courtesy of the Netherlands Flower Bulb Information Center. These [...]
Garden Gnomes Once Again
My garden gnomes have made a choice – looking for another home where there are other little people, animals to watch and gardens to love. Here’s their story…
Rooting Plant Cuttings
Here’s a quick video of my low-cost homemade plant propagation area and a quick primer on how to take plant cuttings. Let me also tell you when it comes to rooting plant cuttings, I don’t use a rooting hormone on any perennial plant I’ve ever rooted up. You might want to use [...]
Dividing Perennial Flowers
July 29, 2009 by Doug
Filed under Perennials, Video
There are few more essential skills for the serious gardener than being able to easily and quickly divide perennials and easily propagate perennial plants. I confess I’ve done way too many of these “simple” divisions in my 30 year nursery career (or at least that’s what my knees tell me)
There are hard [...]
My Garden Landscaping Project
I promised some readers that I’d upload some pics and video of my latest garden landscaping adventure. From rocks that won’t budge to a quick look at the trial nursery and holding beds, this is a fast and dirty look at my own garden.
The Princess and I refer to this year as Year [...]
Growing Lavender
July 14, 2009 by Doug
Filed under Perennials, Video
Here’s an interview I did with Derek Ryles of Prince Edward County Lavender Farm and B&B. He obviously knows and likes his lavender. You can visit his website at http://www.peclavender.com/ If you’re in the eastern Ontario region you can even pick up a few plants for your collection (I did) [...]
