Plants that climb to the sky and and plants that spill to the earth are very dramatic performers in the garden and some of my favorite flora to incorporate into a space. Climbers transform a space like nothing else as they draw the garden visitors eye up, transforming the entire garden picture. Spillers soften hard edges … Continue reading »
Category Archives: Container Gardens
A crazy-quilt container planting can have a place in your garden
Every Memorial Day, my mom, bless her soul, buys a ready-mixed container from the fun This Old House in Arlington, Minnesota, to put on my dad’s headstone. Every year she then gives me the planter, bless her again, to incorporate into my garden. A dear gardening gesture. Whoa, was this year’s container a kicky combo … Continue reading »
Everyone needs a pansy or two at this time of year
The pansies have landed and are at your neighborhood nursery or garden center. Every northern gardener needs to treat their garden and themselves to a pot of pansies as early as possible in the spring. Particularly after the winter we have all just weathered. Pansies will take a little frost, which makes them the ideal harbinger of … Continue reading »
The perils of a poinsettia in February
If you treat your holiday poinsettia as tenderly as you do your other indoor plants, chances are, it’s still looking pretty good. At a time of year when I personally would like to put anything winter out of sight and mind, my poinsettia thrives. It sets on my buffet, all Christmas-like and merry, as if … Continue reading »
A succulent dish for the patio table is fun and easy to do
I did an article for the current Northern Gardener magazine on succulents and the many choices available these days. If you go to the homepage of the site, you can click on the read a sample article link and check it out. As always happily happens, when I research a topic, I get bit by … Continue reading »
