Tag: Growing Concerns
Growing Concerns: Have fun and be creative with colour in your garden
There is so much colour in the garden this time of year with peonies and the first flash of roses finished.
Growing Concerns: Boxelder bug more of pest than a problem
They are everywhere in my garden. They don’t bite and they really don’t hurt anything, but they make my skin crawl. What am I talking about? Those bugs that are black with red stripes or red all over.
Growing Concerns: What to do when rain won’t go away
This year, we can’t complain about how dry everything is. It seems like we’re getting rain about every 10 days or so here in London. This has brought up a lot of questions about drainage.
Growing Concerns: Plants are hungry right now
We are almost halfway through our growing season. With all this rain and cooler temperatures gardens are looking amazing if I do say so myself. My daylilies and echinacea are huge. Everything is looking so lush. But just because everything is looking lush, we must not forget that plants are growing and to fuel this […]
Growing Concerns: Assess summer garden for colour
Many of our gardens are really at their peak which is why mid-June to the end of June is when so many garden clubs and horticulture societies do their garden walks.