gardening expertise, according to Premier Horticulture. They’re looking for ready-to-use, all-in-one soil mixtures to save their gardens and save them time. It’s like Kool-Aid. No longer do you buy the little pack and add sugar and water. Now, it’s all mixed in one container, The trend is toward complete soil-less mixes that allow gardeners to buy just one product with everything in it t do the job. Why dig rock-hard dirt when you can buy a few bags of this magic mix and grow anything easily?
If it moves, it’s in. Anything in the garden that moves is likely to attract attention, according to the Garden Train Association. Some things are not particularly sophisticated, like a whirligig.
Others are more interesting like a spinning spiral copper piece of sculpture or folk art. Hitting grdens big time are garden trains, a hobby that has quadrupled in the past five years. Morris Arboretum installed a garden railroad last year and saw membership triple.
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