Tag: Growing Concerns
Growing Concerns: Warm days, dewy nights great for grass seed
With all this rain, we have had to cut our lawn so frequently it’s easy to imagine all is OK with our grass, but is it?
Growing Concerns: Fall mum and asters great way to enliven fading planters
Summer is winding down. I know fall is on its way when I start to see fall mums and asters for sale.
Not too late to do some planting
It’s August already and I had so many big dreams to do in the garden this year but very few of them happened.
Growing Concerns: Be careful to weed out information you read on the web
Over the last few weeks I have experienced some of the same questions.
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.
Growing Concerns: Plant supports should be barely visible or make a statement
The rains came and gardens have grown almost overnight. Plants are falling over in the garden.