WONDERING HOW—and when—to prune Hydrangea paniculata shrubs whose blooms are browning off now as late fall takes preserve? (That’s one sprouting after a light-weight pruning in spring, above.) Or whether…
SO MANY MAGNOLIAS, SO LITTLE SPACE. I sought options from Andrew Bunting, president of Magnolia Society Worldwide and Curator of the Scott Arboretum at Swarthmore Faculty (with its spectacular Magnolia…
I LOVE FINE GARDEN TOOLS: My edger that has lasted greater than 25 years with no indicators of hurt; my stainless border spade; the long-reach telescoping pruners with precision snipping…
I VIRTUALLY NEVER promise “quick and straightforward” in gardening, which contains worthwhile laborious work and endurance, nonetheless correct proper right here’s the exception: You in all probability can create fast-growing…
WHILE READING the mannequin new e-book “Nature’s Temples: The Tough World of Outdated-Enchancment Forests” by environmental scientist Joan Maloof, the expression “not seeing the forest for the timber” shortly took…
HOW TO KEEP ANIMALS out of the compost heap, or prune actually overgrown shrubs as soon as extra into scale, or cope with slugs: I title them Pressing Yard Questions,…
CONFESSION: I haven’t used my expensive, famous-name pruning shears in various years. No, the yard’s not an deserted mess; I’ve been making dozens (plenty of?) of cuts every day in…
IN THEIR NATIVE HABITATS, Clematis don’t have that submit holding up your mailbox to assist them, or a little bit of picket trellis. In nature, they scramble and climb by…
A BOOK I READ RECENTLY modified the best way wherein whereby I take into consideration pruning, and truly about timber generally in most probably primarily essentially the most profound methodology:…
‘IT’S ENDLESS,” plantsman Michael Dodge (former proprietor of Vermont Willow Nursery) was saying over the cellphone quite a lot of years as soon as extra. He was alluding to the…
