Tag: Gardening
Growing Concerns: What’s with all these holes in the lawn?
Are you frustrated with your lawn? You spend hours watering, fertilizing and cutting them, only to have something come along and dig holes in it. What? And why?
Growing Concerns: Keep focused on priority gardening jobs with a list
This time of year I find myself wandering between gardening jobs. I go to start something in the garden and see something else that needs to be done and I wonder away from my first task. I can have sic or eight unfinished projects on the go in the garden. When I head to the […]
Growing Concerns: Flowering trees and shrubs expand colour options
Last week I shared a list of perennials in bloom this time of year; today I’m looking at trees and shrubs that create a show at this time of year.
Growing Concerns: How to get garden colour all year long
The sun has been shining, the grass is growing and plants are coming alive in the garden. Every day, something new is breaking through the ground or, in some cases, actually beginning to flower. As a designer, I’m often asked to how to get colour in my garden all year long. It’s all about scheduling […]
Growing Concerns: Don’t plant those annuals and veggies yet
Spring is sure here and so is the roller-coaster of weather: One day, we’re at 12 C and the next day, it’s snowing. I’ve been asked if the season is ahead or behind the average norm; what I’ve come to realize is that there is no average norm anymore. Once, we’d get our first snowfall […]