I seldom hear anything about designing a garden around how the light will stream through the leaves. Look at the castor beans! The...
The sirens of spring include bulbs like tulip and daffodil as well as ephemerals such as bloodroot and trillium. I plant these beauties...
I am retiring this year. Big changes! I am excited to have time to be more creative. As a part of this new journey, I am redoing a room...
A trip to the Better Homes and Gardens Test Garden in Des Moines, Iowa is a real treat. This is not just a beautiful garden but the...
I enjoy seeing someone’s sense of humor in their garden. Sometimes the wit is laugh-out-loud funny but other times it is more subtle...
When Dan looked at the piece of property almost 20 years ago, he saw potential. The place had “good bones.” He...
The oldest of five sisters, Kim Chi relates that she is the only one to inherit a green thumb from her mother. But, what a thumb! Her...
Mitch Jameson refers to the acre of ornamental plantings he and Bev Hoyt garden together as “Organic Mayhem.” I have to disagree. I...
Jill Kleinberg, a Douglas County Kansas State Extension Master Gardener, has created one of the most unusual private gardens I have...
I am often asked how to prepare the site for a new garden. There were no plantings in this garden two years ago. This was the side yard...