Virtual Gardening

Creating an indoor jungle

Winter gardening -planning so that THIS year you'll finally get that garden in your mind out into the yard.

Gardening is a process - things keep changing. Life is also a process and we also keep changing. Sometimes we find that we can't keep up with things the way we used to. But that doesn't mean giving up on the garden. Instead, we need to find ways to make adjustments ...

If you must use evergreens as a foundation planting in your front yard - if, in fact, you insist on a foundation planting with shrubs - then why not go the creative route and use colorful dwarf conifers in blues, golds, and bronzes? And while you're waiting for them to grow ...

What does one do when you have 14 distinct and fairly large garden spots, acres of weeds - and a strict threat from the medical people that spending more than 30 minutes a day in the garden may have harmful consequences? It takes some ingenuity, persistence - and a new way ...

Learn the three Ds of pruning - and what happens when you get so caught up in the sheer joy of sculping your trees and shrubs into healthy, well shaped plants that you forget to look at the area surrounding them.

We've all grown accustomed to our own styles of gardening, as well as with certain plants that we love even if they are a lot of work. But as we grow less able, something has to change - and it could very well be our attitude about what our garden should ...

None of us are getting younger, and most of us are finding that we are less able than we once were. Here are a few aadjustments to your garden and gardening style that can simplify the work and keep the joy in gardening.

By this time in the gardening season it seems that we are always looking backward or forward to some ideal day when the garden will look right. And if we don't get it - well, you can always blame the weather. Unfortunately, by mid summer too many of us have forgotten ...

Susan Ray is serious about her tacky yard art - and that is not a contradiction in terms. What initially horrified the neighbors has since become a joint neighborhood project, complete with donor plaques.