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Weeds Be Gone
Weeds are basically defined as any plant you don’t want in your garden or landscape. It might be welcomed by another gardener, but to you it’s a pest. I often embellish this definition . . .
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Designing With Container Gardens
Along with the Memorial Day weekend comes the opportunity to splash annual color into your home landscape. Containers filled with colorful annuals can serve as a greeting at your entryway, divide an area . . .
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Daylilies
We all have our favorite garden plant. Every gardener has his or her reasons for their top pick. Mine is the daylily. When I first moved to the area I was taken by the wild daylilies . . .
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Lawn Care 101: Keeping It Simple
Time to start thinking lawn care! The snow has melted (well for those of us in Greenfield, the piles still remain!), the ground beginning to dry out a bit, and those commercial begin to bombard you on TV and . . .
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Got Shade?
Many homeowners feel challenged by the presence of shade in their yard. Commonly they think of a garden in full sunny conditions. With shade, immediately the thoughts turn to a bare or moss covered area with . . .
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Combining Perennials With Annuals
Remember those teaser warm days 2 weeks ago. Like many gardeners I too “smelled” spring and began to ready for my annual “playing in the dirt”. Then along came the April cold temperatures . . .
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Pruning Your Landscape Shrubs and Trees
Ever take a Sunday drive by beautifully manicured properties …and wonder how the landscape plants become so perfectly sized and shaped? Then you return home to the overgrown jungle that greets . . .
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Planning Your Outdoor Oasis:
Respect Mother Nature
The sun shines, we are teased with 60 degree days...we count down the inches of snow melt daily and long to grab our tools and head outside to enjoy our beautiful Northern Saratoga County. This seasonal frenzy . . .
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What’s Your Curb Appeal?
Most property owners are quite familiar with the term: curb appeal. Initially the term was used exclusively as real estate jargon. It was generally defined as the first impression of the house from the street. In the new . . .
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Creating Garden Pathways
Garden pathways invite one’s further exploration. They create a kind of journey with a final destination. Garden designer Julie Moir Massey of Wellesley Massachusetts, suggests there are four basic elements of . . .
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Glorious Hydrangeas
May flowers and Mother’s Day always bring to mind a favorite childhood memory of mine. I vividly recall beautiful blue Mophead hydrangeas gracing the side of my Grandmother’s home in Southern New Jersey. . .
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Grazing Deer And Your Home Garden
There is nothing quite as frustrating as a leisurely stroll through your garden, only to find your local deer families have had a party at your expense just hours before. This time of year our gardens are producing . . .
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New Elements For Home Gardens
The home garden is no longer just a collection of foundation shrubbery, dotted with flowers and the accent of a pink flamingo, or garden gnome. Developing research and technology have partnered to allow . . ..
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Welcoming Birds To Your Gardens
As I sat out on my back deck a few weeks ago, I had a brief visit by the most gorgeous yellow finch. He lit upon a nearby hosta flower stem. I was close enough to see his beautiful colors . . .
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