Cottage Garden
Barbara M. Martin
Articles
Voyeurs on Tour: Garden Tour Rules
The unofficial Garden Tour Season is upon us. Get the straight scoop on proper garden visitor etiquette -- and be amazed at what "other people" can do.
Some of my thoughts about bonsai and why you might enjoy growing a potato in bonsai form too. Photos of my very own bonsai potatoes.
More about terrariums and dish gardens and links to step-by-step directions, how-to instructions with illustrations, and extensive plant lists. And one more testimonial about how a houseplant addict can peacefully coexist with a plant-eating monster of an indoor kitty cat plus a dire warning about the OTHER creature who inhabits a ...
If you yearn for gardening in midwinter, plant a terrarium. It's easy and fast to plant (in about an hour) and about as close to "no maintenance" as a gardener can get.
The garden catalogs are coming. What do you expect from yours? Will it deliver?
Many bulbs are native to Afghanistan. Are you growing some?
Restoring the American Chestnut
The American Chestnut tree is gone but not forgotten, and efforts are underway to restore this magnificent tree to the American landscape. Maybe you can help!
Fall foliage reigns supreme in the Catoctin Mountains and at home in the cottage garden. Find your own inspiration in the colors of nature.
Piggy's Favorite Playground (Part II)
Universalities of design appeal in this fabulous wonderland of a playground in London. Piggy, of course, simply enjoyed the visit.
Memorial Garden to Diana, Princess of Wales
We visit a very special and inspiring play area or childrens garden created in London as part of the Memorial Garden to Diana, Princess of Wales.
Piggy's Select European Garden Tour:
This article begins the epic tale in which Piggy (Cottage Garden Mascot of Tacky Yard Art fame) travels afar to visit several Capitals of Europe and literally becomes enshrined as an absolute treasure in the Musee Pompidou in Paris. Along the way, Piggy views Garden Marvels large and small, sees some ...
Live Butterflies Before Your Eyes
Butterfly Garden or Cottage Garden? Do both and have your cake and eat it too. Make sure you grow the best of both! Essentials of butterfly gardening and plenty of detailed links to help you enhance your garden to welcome butterflies with maximum enjoyment and delight.
The Juneberries are ripe!
Stop the car! I see flowers! Cottage gardens enliven the city landscape like no other garden style. Walk with me and enjoy photos of some of Baltimore's charming and exuberant cottage gardens in June.
Is it a weed ... or a treasured perennial seedling? Identify those little leafy little babies with certainty and protect your garden from the weedy equivalent of the scourge and plague combined!
Grow drop-dead showstopper tomatoes with a neat new trick this year -- plant them upside down in a hanging bucket! Perfect for the garden running short on space and a great conversation piece.
Spring comes fast and furious in the cottage garden with its broad plant pallette and anything goes approach to color. Make sure your garden is full to overflowing with these well loved favorites!
You can grow your own top notch blue ribbon prize winning giant yes GIANT pumpkin this summer. Here's how!
The right flowering tree can bring great beauty to your spring garden. Here are some favorites to consider for your own landscape design plan.
Annual Bedding Plants Old and New
Annual flowers are planted every year and are used for every purpose from bedding to containers to the mixed border design to the cutting garden. Here's what you need to know to be successful with annuals -- both old fashioned favorites and exotic new introductions -- this summer.
A bright blue plastic wading pool may not be the latest in high tech gardening tools or the epitome of high gardening style, but it makes gardening possible from roof top to parking lot and everywhere in between. Now you can grow bog plants, water chestnuts, breed frogs, or even grow ...
Spring clean-up in the garden is a time to greet old friends and meet new ones, visit with the garden in simple pleasures and quiet delights. Linger and dawdle, enjoy the gentle spring sunshine and while away a day with me.
Fight back! Tame the cool weather with coldframes, hotbeds, cloches and other season extenders; from basement window wells to truly extreme measures we will help you acclimate your plants so they transition smoothly from that coddled warm indoor life (or the tropics) to the harsh world outside in the open garden ...
Salvias come in many shapes and sizes, surely there's at least one that's right for your garden!
Sage, salvia officinalis, is herb of the year for 2001. Explore the many types of sage, learn to grow them and use them and enjoy them.
Isn't it time you planted a little herb garden? With this simple "wagon wheel" plan, you can do it!
Hosta: every home should have one. Once considered a plain Jane plant for the shade, colorful and exciting modern hostas are available to suit almost every gardening situation from shady beds and borders to containers to specimen use.
Earliest spring is a time to be greedy in the garden. Make sure you enjoy the first blooms of the season. Here are some of my favorite spring blooming plants.
Some things just can't be forced, and spring may be one of them. A lighter look at the doldrums of late winter.
Follow Your Heart: Cottage Garden Design
Plant what you love, and your garden will love you back.
Cottage Garden Design, Part III
A garden built on poor soil will fail. Don't let it happen to you! In the densely planted and highly productive cottage garden, the proper care and feeding of the soil become more important than ever. Another secret you should know.
A delight for the plant collector and the ecologically responsible gardener, growing a wide variety of plants and staying in harmony with nature are critical to a succesful cottage garden design.
The first in a series to help you achieve the kind of cottage garden you've been dreaming of. In this series, I share some of my professional garden design concepts, beginning with creating a sense of "enclosure".
Your Garden Journal is Forever
Keeping a garden journal in style is a philosophical act and reflects your individuality. Done right, it can also become your best garden tool. Find out the most important how's and why's of garden journal keeping, based on my own years of personal experience.
How to select, use, care for and maintain all kinds of garden tools -- from trusty trowels to sharpening pruners to savoring lavish plant catalogs as useful information.
Garden Railroading: A Great Hobby
If you've ever admired a garden railway display, or secretly wanted to build an outdoor model train setup, here's your chance to find out all about this amazing hobby.
If the weather keeps you out of the garden, then put the time to good use and make some quick, easy and delicious fudge. Keeps well under lock and key. (Did I say fast, easy and yummy?) MICROWAVE RECIPE.
Ice makes its mark on the garden in no uncertain terms. View scenes of shimmering beauty from my own garden, from the bright berries of Aronia "Brilliantissima" to the sweetest of snow angels, taken the morning after a winter night's storm of freezing rain.
Greenhouse Envy, the Iguana & Me
Greenhouse envy is an identifiable condition. Check yourself for symptoms -- and then get the help you need right here.
Try something different this year, and start a new tradition: Christmas trees good enough to eat! Recipes for tree shaped cookies, brownies, cakes, rolls, candies..... even a Santa's vegetable tree and a few "inedible" recipes just for fun and good looks. Indulge!
It's nearly National Poinsettia Day! (As if we need an excuse to adore these plants!) Learn how to select a good, healthy poinsettia that will add long lasting beauty and cheer to your holiday decorating.
A gardener's horticultural look at Thanksgiving menus then and now.
Try a quick topiary for an unusual, living holiday decoration or start a more ambitious long term project. Table top or window sill topiaries offer something for every one!
Are you planting bulbs? Are you planting them right? Have you planted enough bulbs? Let's do the math!
How much do you know about wicked plants? You'll find these African violets a treat.
A small garden offers a unique design opportunity -- and plenty of free time to enjoy it! Links to tips on small space garden design strategies.
Do you welcome frost? Maybe you should! Frost brings season's end and a clean slate to the garden. The erstwhile jungle becomes a wide open sea of empty mulch. So what does that mean to the gardener?
Ten seasonal chores for the fall garden. A great fall send-off means a jump on spring -- and maybe an eye-opener or two. Best of all, find out how to get super FREE STUFF!
Apple head dolls are an expressive and time treasured specialty craft. Explore the artistry and the craft of these captivating creations. A how-to overview and many links to step by step instructions. Perfect for adults and children alike, a timely project for the fall apple harvest season.
Help yourself to some eye candy! Fall foliage is a gift of nature, one we treasure each autumn. Here's where to find it in person or by web cam and how to bring some home to enjoy and grow in the landscape plan for your own yard or garden design.
OOps it did it again! Every garden should have snow in September -- if it's a boltonia in action. Great links for designing a garden with fall blooming perennials, too.
Things I learned in the back yard when I was a child. Do other people remember things like this? I hope so because otherwise I'm crazier than my kid already thinks I am.
A virtual garden tour like no other. You simply must take a few minutes and join Piggy for a tour of the grounds.
Thanks for checking in! I'm still on break... Watch for the Adventures of Piggy, The Flying Garden Pig. Coming soon!
Make Mosaic Step Stones Part 3 of 3
Make your own mosaic step stones. Part 3.
Make Mosaic Step Stones Part 2
making step stones continued
Make your own decorator quality mosaic step stones and add a personal, custom touch to your yard or garden. It's an easy project requiring no special skill or talent -- if I can do it with great results, so can you! And hey -- make them as tacky (or as tasteful) ...
Take home a daylily this week! Pick one you love -- and enjoy. Visit a display garden, shop at the nursery, order by mail or dig one from a friend's garden, there's always room for "just one more"! ps Check out the 4th Annual Tacky Yard Art Contest oooohlala!!!
Blue and Pink Daylilies for Your Cottage Garden
Are there really blue and pink daylilies? You be the judge! More reasons why you should ADD MORE DAYLILIES to your garden. This just might become your favorite plant.
Find the Right Daylily for Your Cottage Garden
Don't let the "experts" sell you on an ugly daylily just because for some reason it's popular. My rant about poor Stella d'Oro, inexplicably one of the most popular daylilies of all time.
Daylilies For Your Cottage Garden
Daylilies (Hemerocallis) are a must in the cottage garden, and you'll never have too many. How to choose the one (make that a dozen) that's right for your garden and everything you need to know to grow them beautifully when you get them home. Plant some to enjoy now, swap and ...
Cottage garden style is all over the map from venerable rose covered cottages to well, you'll see -- where do you fit in?!
How To Show Off With Big Plants
Sometimes bigger really is better! Have fun and show off with big bold foliage accents from hardy bananas to dinner plates. Your neighbors won't know what to think!
Setting Up a Fountain in the Garden
A fountain will enhance any garden setting. Learn how to make your own fountain -- large or small -- it's incredibly simple with just a few basic supplies!
Become a Water Gardener today and enjoy the magic of your own little pond at home -- complete with water lilies and even gold fish. This is the perfect way to "test the waters" and see how fun and rewarding pond keeping can be.
XERISCAPE: Beyond Cactus and Rocks
Xeriscape (Can you say that?) Try "water wise gardening" or "water conserving landscape". Learn the basic steps to creating a beautiful and successful landscape using the 7 steps to xeriscape -- without using cactus, rocks or gravel!
Heliotrope! You Gotta Get Some!
Here's a plant beloved for so many qualities -- for fragrance, butterflies, fragrance, container, fragrance, window sill, fragrance, Grandma's garden or cottage garden or ... fragrance? Try heliotrope, or as some people know it, old fashioned "cherry pie"! WOW!
TENT CATERPILLARS DENUDING TREES!
Tent caterpillars are destroying tree foliage. Is it the dreaded Gypsy Moth? What do you do?
Rosemary: Herb of the Year 2000
EVERYTHING about rosemary, the plant, the herb, the cure for baldness.
Container Tips, Tricks and Techniques
Add pizzaz to your container gardening this season! How-to tips, tricks and techniques plus some fun design ideas for window boxes, pots and improvised containers.
Theme Gardens: The White Garden
Romance, glamor, mystery, brilliance. Every gardener should try planting a white garden, just once. You'll never be without one again!
Garden Sayings, Quotes & Poetry
Say it with style! From the silly to the serious: A collection of HUNDREDS of popular garden sayings, wit, wisdom, quips, quotes, poems and one-liners. Original poetry is welcome, too. From humorous to inspirational, find exactly the right words for your purpose -- be it decorating that perfect garden ornament to ...
Just Look at Those Vegetables!
How to use all sorts of vegetables from asparagus and aubergines to zucchini and French pumpkins to enhance your ornamental flower garden.
Control those weeds! It's time to move fast, no matter what the season. Or you will be chasing the same weeds forever and a day.
My newest snake story! How's your sense of decorum? Celebrate April Fool's day with an honest-to-goodness true life humor story about me, the ornamental grasses, the hedge trimmer and the snakes in my garden. Golly good grief!
Herbs belong in every garden -- add some to yours now! How-to tips and designs using popular herbs plus some interesting historical notes.
Put the secrets of companion planting to work in your garden!
Put It On Paper: Garden Plan Part Three
From idea to scale drawing and shopping list: how to get perfect results from your garden plan in three easy steps.
Thinking: Garden Plan Part Two
A good plan takes a little thought -- and the payoff is terrific! Make it easy on yourself!
The Plan! The Plan! You know you're supposed to do it, but how do you start? The first of three steps to an individualized garden plan you can do yourself and then really use.
Looking ahead to the new year.
Winterize now and be ready when winter strikes! Are you as prepared as you should be?
Ever eaten alfalfa? How about sprouts? From seed to table to freezer, all you need to know to amaze your friends and tempt your kids to eat their vegetables. Aren't sprouts wonderful!
Terror at ten o'clock at night: what would YOU do -- PLAY POSSUM?
When frost threatens, do you know what to do? Strategies to help save your plants. Prepare your arsenal now!
The first signs of fall are bold but fleeting -- don't get left behind!
Revenge of the Purple Cabbage Hater
Ornamental kale is ... ugly as sin. Hideous. An aberration. And it should be stopped. But if you have to have this awesome plant, here's how to take good care of it. And a thought or two about revenge.
An after school enrichment program for budding gardeners ages 9 to 12.
Mulch: More than Meets the Eye
Mulch is magic! The potential benefits (and dangers) of mulching.
Bulbs are not for the faint of heart. Spring only comes once a year, so think big and think bold! Take the plunge and pour on the color!
Fanciful to fabulous: nothing is as fantastic as a great looking gourd. All you need to know to grow your own from seed to work of art or birdhouse or musical instrument or....
Garden design takes it cues from many sources, but the most important is "Right Plant, Right Place". Set yourself up for success by using this simple concept toward sustainability in gardening.
When "pretty" is not enough -- make your garden design irresistable. Use a simple underlying design technique to make your garden uniquely memorable and satisfying.
A Flock of Baby ... Hummers???
Is it a hummingbird? Or is it a moth! These daytime fliers are amazingly similar to hummers and are great fun to watch. Night time moths are fun, too. Mix up some Moth Broth today!
Easy Keepers for Summer Gardens
Great performers for the summer garden. Everyone needs some dependable "easy keepers" and these plants selected among flowers, shrubs and trees have worked for me year after year. Maybe they'll work for you, too.
"Rain, Rain, Go Away ..."
Has your rain up and gone? It could be an emergency!
Echinacea may change your life!
From ditch to table, this is one great tiger! Do you know this tawny lily as a hemerocallis?
Throw your most successful (and memorable) fun and activity-filled garden party ever! Follow these creative tips and avoid the pitfalls of the dreaded (and dreadful) boring garden party! The third in a series of three Garden Party Planners.
"A well fed guest is a happy guest." That's garden party gospel and you'd better believe it. Here's how to make sure you have very happy guests, whether their preferences run from candied violets to the finest in wine and cheese to those icky, sticky, super sweet S'Mores or the everpopular ...
Garden Party Planner: Start Here
Party! Party! Party! Summer is garden party season. This first of a three part series offers many cheerful must-do hints and tips on planning a successful garden party from the pre-party schedule to suggested themes, recipes, entertainment and table topics. Some you will find useful, some undoubtedly the opposite, but all ...
Tall bearded iris are many a gardener's favorite flower -- but they are not always easy to grow well. Find out the easiest ways to do it right (and what to do when things go wrong)! Includes links to some of the best iris sites out there.
How to grow and enjoy flowers for cutting and drying. Get the most out of your roses, lilies, annual bouquets and dried flowers so you can enjoy them indoors and all year long, too!
Spring gardens by design and surprise are wonderful -- especially when a shady "white garden" begins to glow.
Go for the gold and show off your spring garden in a golden moment -- try a little foliar magic! This may surprise you.
Weeds, weeds, weeds. What to do about them. How to control them BEFORE they control you. And how to appreciate them. Yup, you read that right!
Scarecrows are wonderful fun -- and they fit right in with any garden style from sprawling rural to urban rooftop! Find your inspiration here and decorate your garden today!
Lavender -- mais oui! Everything you ever wanted to know about lavender, lavandin, true lavender, English lavender, French lavender, lavender in France and of course, what to do with it all once you've got it (including recipes) and what people have been doing with it for centuries -- cosmetic, culinary, historic, ...
It's spring and so we must dig -- to feed the soil and the soul. Unless of course, you believe in the No Dig Method! Or do you Double Dig? Use a bull dozer? How about a shovel?
Are you an inadvertent tree killer!?! Up to date pointers on how to select, purchase, plant and troubleshoot trees for your yard. Advice on WHERE (and where not) to put trees in your yard. You only get one chance to do it right so do the smart thing and bone up ...
Whimisical ideas and projects for all aspects of the garden from lawn to vegetable patch to the children's domain. Great fun for gardeners of all ages and bound to entertain the neighbors, too.
"Easy Low Maintenance Perennials" are a joke and the joke's on you! But it's a relative term -- there are some easy spring tasks in the perennial garden. And there are some low maintenance perennials. Find out what they are here.
Still not composting like you should? Ready to start composting anew this spring? Get the information you need to start out right -- what to use and how to do it, so you can make great compost for your garden now! The perfect way to celebrate Earth Day!
Do you have fairies in your garden? Celebrate spring and entice more fairies into your garden with a delightful miniature fairy garden made just for them!
Simplicity in Herb Garden Design
In the center of a wildly flowering and fragrant herb garden, an inward focus on serenity and classic design.
What's the goofy connection between St. Patrick's Day and slugs? Find out for yourself! Slugs in the garden: how to trap them, catch them, and otherwise deal with them. Did you know some slugs are quite benign? Yechh.
It’s Earth Day: Bring On The Worms!
Earth Day from the bottom up -- Earth worms, vermiculture and vermicompost in the garden, at home and at school. Lots of useful links and in-depth facts PLUS how to use a worm bin. From the Cottage Garden.
Cloves, Picotees & Sops-In-Wine
Do you know the "real" name for these wonderful cottage garden plants with a history older than Shakespeare? Dianthus are tops for garden performance and pure delight!
John Bartram's Franklinia alatamaha holds a very special place in colonial American botanical history -- and is much sought after today. Find out why!
Exuberant, extravagant, and home to the garden fairies, the foxgloves are quintessential cottage garden plants yet well suited to every garden style.
A specially designed flower garden for a sunny spot, this Valentine theme garden includes antique, heirloom, and fragrant bulbs, vines and annual flowers, heart shaped trellis, and a cheerful pink, red and white color scheme. Just perfect for your Valentine!
Early spring flowering in the cottage garden: the editor's favorites.
Winter days are short and dark, try some wintergreen candy to brighten them up! More fun facts and sites about ice and cold, too.
From the "Ice Worm" to the great Zamboni, winter ice and snow take on a new look in the Cottage Garden.
How to make a garden plan you'll eally use, part three.
Beat cabin fever by starting seeds in your refrigerator! Learn about the magic of prechilling or cold stratification as a germination requirement for certain types of seeds including many perennials, trees and shrubs. For some, now is the time to start! Get a head start on seed starting in general with ...
Feng Shui Gardening: A New Year, A New Spirit
What is old is new again: use ancient Chinese feng shui and geomancy techniques to take a new look at your garden and to release all the peaceful and harmonious wonders around you and allow them to surround you with a new enriched spirit and creativity.
Season's Greetings
Winter Damage: Is Your Garden At Risk?
Tempting fate on the winter hardiness scale? Looking at warm fall temps and reduced soil moisture? Hoping to avoid repeating past winter kill and cold damage? It might be time to worry -- or it might not! Learn to evaluate the risks and take action to protect the ornamental plants in ...
Holiday Trees Are for the Birds!
Decorate a stylish (and tasty!) tree for the birds using the latest suggestions and honest-to-goodness *recipes* -- including birdseed cookies! Great family fun and so rewarding. Brings more birds into the garden, too.
Children's Garden Gifts and Treasures
The gardener's guide to keeping little hands busy! How-to instructions for children's fall and winter garden crafts and projects (fun stuff no matter the weather). Some include mud.
Simple Garden Gifts and Treasures
Featured this week: Native American Keepsakes: Toys and Figures. A series of soothing how-to projects using natural materials from the garden. Perfect for relaxing and/or gift giving.
Dream Time: The Plant Catalogs Are Here!
Plant catalogs are the stuff of dreams. Find your favorite here! Brilliant descriptions and fabulous plants beguile and bewitch us. Year in and year out, we read and dream. Connect with The Catalog of Catalogs.
Nuts and Berries, Sticks and Vines
Celebration and Thanksgiving in the fall garden -- some plants for fall and winter interest.
Just Some Quiet Little Tool Talk
Tabletop gardens are all the rage -- but are you equipped to handle them? A humorous look at smaller sized garden tools of many sorts from the Tiny Tim Seeder to chopsticks.
Say Hello To Easy Winter Bulbs!
It's time to plant paperwhites and amaryllis. These easy and fun bulbs will brighten your winter holidays and take you on into spring -- they make great gifts, too! Learn to force and care for your amaryllis and paperwhite bulbs.
Grow An Indoor Herb Garden This Winter!
Growing container herbs indoors is fun and rewarding, but it does require some special techniques -- especially in the winter! Let the experts show you how to succeed with your indoor herb garden, from selecting to potting up to ongoing maintenance and harvest.
Many gardeners pass the winter hours watching back yard birds. Find out the best feeder locations for your yard so you can enjoy them the most. Lots of links to great bird watching sites, too.
Inspiration for the fall garden! Enjoy some unusual hardy perennials, grasses, trees and shrubs with wonderful fall interest as guest columnist and garden designer Abby Millager describes her zone 5 Massachusetts garden in mid October.
Shadows of Doom in the Sunny Border
Sun loving hardy perennials, old fashioned heirloom annuals and prairie wildflowers for the early fall display -- all the colors of the rainbow! And barely a mum in sight.
Fall Comes To the Cottage Garden
Worried About Weather? Zones and Frost Dates
Gardeners need to know about zones and frost dates.
Rose-of-Sharon: When The Rose is Not A Rose!
A rose by any other name! Rose of Sharon, the hardy Hibiscus syriacus, is a gift to summer gardens. See why here!
Shady Highlights: Summer Shrubs Part Three
Summer Shrub Hit Parade Part Two
Summer Blooming Shrubs Part One
Hardy summer flowering shrubs for your cottage garden or mixed border.
A Garden in the Jungle of Weeds
Use self sown annual and perennial flower plants in garden design for right plant right place and naturalized plants to attract hummingbirds and butterflies
A Loving Father's Day OUT of the Garden
A humorous look at Father's Day: thanks for all the big things (heavy chores) Dads do in the garden. From mowing and mulching to ditch digging!
Hummingbirds are great in the garden! Some special plants to attract hummers.
Why growing ordinary fragrant honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica) in the cottage garden isn't all it's hyped up to be. In fact, it's an escaped invasive exotic weed. in some areas.
Roses? I Don’t Grow No Stinkin’ Roses!
Growing the perfect rose in the cottage garden, no matter where you live.
Should You Plant By the Moon and the Zodiac?
The moon influences the tides and so why not also our plants?
Planting Your First Culinary Herb Garden
Culinary herb garden design for success from the start: recommended plant selection to begin with the familiar, grow and enjoy!
The Things Mothers Grow For Love!
A fun, tongue in cheek look at the many "rare and exotic" plants and non-plants gardening mothers grow to please their children!
Garden Design Is Theater: It's Show Time!
The art of gardening really is about creating an illusion, an impression, a sensation. As the gardener, you control the setting and the cast. Set the scene and bring in the props - the results are limited only by your imagination.
Catch That Bunny! Hide Those Eggs!
A whimsical look at Easter eggs, bunnies and basketry and other Easter finery in the garden.
Gardeners Know the Best (and Worst) Dirt!
Equinox? Solstice? Move the Furniture!!!!
Bewitched By Lilac: Magic Memories
How to Get the Cutting Garden You've Always Wanted!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ECO-GARDENS! LET'S CELEBRATE!!!
Garden Labels and Markers: Find Yours Here!
Garden labels and markers come in all shapes and sizes!
Troublefree color in the summer garden, leaves you time to sit back, sip some lemonade and enjoy the butterflies. Whether you garden in the country, the suburbs, or the city you are sure to find some winners here.
A fun look at how the water lotus performs in my garden.
Purple Flowers: Spring in the Cottage Garden
Spring is glorious in the Cottage Garden -- find out what's in mine.... I hope you like purple! Don't you just love spring!?!
Resolved. Keep Garden Journal. Label Plants.
Celebrating Nuts and Berries, Sticks and Vines!
Fall Gardening: Celebration and Thanksgiving
Bye-Bye Bambi: A Battle for Keeps!
Do you have a deer problem at your house? Strategies and means for easing the pain -- without resorting to drastic measures.
Landscape and Garden Design On A Budget: You Can Make It Happen In Six Easy Steps!
What’s Your Garden Landscape Style?: Cowboy? Edwardian! Eccentric!?
Garden Design Basics: The Step By Step Process
Garden Design Basics: Fitting It All In!
Face Down in the Fish Pond: Dry Garden Design Basics
Garden Design Basics: Setting Ground Rules
The Holiday Gardener’s "Handy" Reference
Back Seat Gardening: The View From the Garden Bench
The Front Walk: A Garden Design Basic
Hunting in the Garden: Where Plants, Animals and People Cross Paths
The Contemporary Garden Journal: Readers, Writers and Publishers
Garden. Sculpture. Garden. Ever the Twain Shall Meet!
CHIPMUNKS: Friend or Foe? You Decide!
Facts of Life In the Natural Garden
POLITICS IN THE GARDEN: LIBERALS UNITE!
Flower Essence: Making Sense out of Non-Scents
Savvy Gardener's Guide to Fall Color
Wash Your Hands With Soap Before You Eat! And Other Lessons From The Garden
Permaculture: Gardens for Body and Soul
Ecobabble or Ecopsychology? (Organic Gardening Part Three)
The Garden Observer! (Organic Gardening Part Two)
Healthy Plants Don't Get Nits! (Organic Gardening: Part One)
Pssst! There’s a SNAKE in the garden!
Weather Weather Everywhere! What Are We to Think !?!
COMPOST! The Quick and Dirty Net Trip to Humus
Compost is hot stuff! Get some for your garden now!!!
WHOLLY BATS, BATMAN : DA-DA-DA-DA-DA-DA-DA-DA- NOT!!!!
Where Have All the Flowers Gone? On Daylilies and Woodchucks
This One’s For the Birds! Gardening With the WiId Neighbors
Get Wild! Garden Parties to Attract the Neighbors!?!
TICK TALK: Ticks, Lyme Disease, and Tick Control
Lyme disease is no joke -- learn about ticks, learn how to reduce your risk of exposure and find out about the new vaccine.
Herb Recipes for Eco-Gardeners: The "Real Thing"
Knock Off the Old Knot Garden? NOT!
The No-Fail Herb Garden: Informal Recipe for Success
Herb Gardening for Beginners: what to plant, where to plant it, how to plant it and what to do with it once you've grown it!
On Herb Gardening... and Other Things!
Herbs are wonderful in the garden and in the kitchen. How to relax, begin with a few herbs in your garden using the "here and there" approach, and have fun. So try it! You'll like it!
When Hugs Just Aren't Enough: Trees Need Care, Too!
Hug A Tree? Give Me A Break! It 's Arbor Day Again
Quick! Name that Plant! In Latin!!!
Of Ladybug , Virgin's Cow, and ... Devil's Chicken?!?
Al Gore's Gone Native -- And On His Very Own Lawn, No Less!
Home Lawn Care: The Softer Touchstone of Suburban Living
Butterflies and Gardens: Making the Perfect Match
Butterflies belong in gardens just as much as the flowers do! How to enjoy them and how to please them -- identification, larval food sources, nectar sources, the works!
Add ANOTHER Water Feature! Just Do It!
Water features are fabulous fun -- and you can make a simple fountain all by yourself with some basic equipment: an outlet, a pump, and a catch basin to hold the water.
Add Another Easy Water Feature! The Second of Three
Easy tips on water gardening in a container -- perfect for deck or patio!
Add A Water Feature! It's Easy and Fun! The First of Three
What Makes A "Good" Garden Design?
Once the bones are in, right plant right place is the basis for all good design.