February 7, 2012 – 10:52 am | 2 Comments

Virtues: We love ‘Lizzano’ and ‘Terenzo’ tomatoes for their tasty fruit, high yield, disease resistance and their growing habit. Both are cherry tomatoes with a compact size that makes them perfect for containers or small …

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Transplanting Moss
June 28, 2011 – 10:59 am | No Comment

Tips for transplanting moss from one garden area to another.

Gardening With Moss
June 28, 2011 – 10:52 am | No Comment
Gardening With Moss

There’s nothing as soothing as an emerald carpet of moss on a damp, misty morning. Mosses combine wonderfully with ferns and evergreen groundcovers in the shady garden and I hope you’ll agree that mosses are one plant that no garden should be without.

Q&A: Ornamental Grasses: Friend or Foe?
September 21, 2009 – 12:09 am | No Comment

If I plant ornamental grasses will they take over my garden and become invasive?

Witherod Viburnum: A Bright-Berried Shrub
September 23, 2008 – 12:09 am | No Comment

This viburnum’s berries turn a variety of shades, including pink.

Quiet Clematis
October 24, 2007 – 12:10 am | One Comment

North America is home to over two dozen species of clematis, but very few of these are found in gardens. Our native species lack the big, blowsy blooms of the garden hybrids, producing instead demure, understated flowers. To compare the two is to compare a raucous pop song with a gentle fiddle tune. Both are satisfying in their own way, and both have a place in the garden…

Native Ferns for the Shade Garden
May 1, 2007 – 12:05 am | One Comment

While dinosaurs and dodo birds have come and gone, ferns have quietly carried on, requiring nothing from this Earth but a bit of sun and a square of sod in which to sink their roots.
Let’s …