Today was a lovely sunny day and I spent most of it working in clients gardens. Clearing up leaves and cutting back the broken fern fronds and Helleborus leaves plus the everlasting weeding. Being able to work in many gardens gives me the opportunity to see all the new plants getting ready for spring. I have [...]
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What’s blooming in the garden now
Posted in garden maintenance, In the garden, plant profiles, tagged Abeliophyllum distichum, fragrant forsythia, Hamamelis Intermedia 'Jelena', Heather, Helleborus, maintenance, Monkshood, roses, white forsythia, witchhazel 'Jelena' Harmonious gardens on February 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Early Maintenance
Posted in garden maintenance, In the garden, tagged espalier trees, fruit trees, Harmonious gardening, Maintenance in the garden, organic dormant oil, pruning, shot weed on February 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
If you can brave the cold winds and rain, now is a good time to remove any weeds still lurking in the garden after fall clean up. shot weed Cardamine hirsuta or better know as shot weed is particularly obnoxious. flowering any time of the year, at any size and shooting hundreds of seeds [...]
Gardening rediscovered
Posted in garden maintenance, In the garden, plant profiles, tagged Autumn crocus, Colchicum, Galanthus, Helleborus, Prunus cerasifera, Repel All, Snowdrops, squirrels as pests, Thundercloud Plum, Viburnum bodnantense 'Pink Dawn' on February 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Although winter isn’t quite over here in the Pacific Northwest, the gardens are coming alive. As I drove north from my trip I saw the first of the Prunus cerasifera trees, ( Thundercloud cherry plum) beginning to flower. Those small delicate pink tinged flowers were my first signs of spring. The deep purple leaves wont [...]
Cherry Blossom Time & Maintenance
Posted in garden maintenance, tagged cherry blossom, cherry blossom festivals, Garden tips, Harmonious Garden Artistry, Harmonious Gardens, Hori hori knife, Indian plum, Mahonia, Maintenance in the garden, Native flowering currant, Native Plants, Oemleria cerasiformis, shot weed, shrubs for hummers, Sword Ferns, what to plant for hummingbirds, Yoshino cherry trees on March 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
While Washington DC is gearing up for a festival of epic proportions, 300,000 blooming Yoshino trees, here in Bellingham,our cherry trees are just beginning to burst into bloom too. Despite the very soggy ground today I was out working in customers gardens today. One cherry tree in the street was particularly lovely. Those tiny hanging [...]
Back in Bellingham
Posted in Beautiful trees, garden maintenance, In the garden, plant profiles, tagged Camellias, Daphne Odora, early spring flowering trees, evergreen shrubs, Flowering plums, fragrant shrubs and trees, Harmonious Garden Artistry, Harmonious Gardens, Honeysuckle fragrantissima, Prunus blireiana, Prunus Thundercloud, small gardens, small trees, spring gardens, Winter daphne, Winter flowering plants, winter honeysuckle on March 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It is good to be back. My garden is bursting with bloom, a little cold today, especially where I was planning to work! Light snow at a 1000′. I thought my viewers might like to see a portion of my front garden. I will never again think that I have a small garden, after being [...]
Ground cover problems
Posted in garden maintenance on March 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ground cover in the landscape can be either a harmonious blessing, where the landscape is pleasant and requires minimum attention, or a gardener’s worst nightmare, where there are perennial and annual weeds growing through everywhere and the ground cover looks like a wild shaggy dog. There are two main reasons for these problems with ground [...]
Fern Maintenance
Posted in garden maintenance, In the garden, plant profiles, tagged Alaska fern, Autumn fern, croziers, evergreen plants, garden maintenance, Harmonious gardening, Japanese painted fern, Maidenhair fern, perennial ferns, Tassel fern on February 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Only a few days ago I was out in my garden, thinking how wonderful it was that spring was nearly here! I was in for a shock, overnight I had 4-6” of snow on my deck! Take heart all you gardeners who had started work on the maintenance of your garden, this was good snow. By that, [...]
GARDENING MAINTENANCE
Posted in garden maintenance, tagged annual weeds, biodegradable bags, bittercress, buttercups, coffee grounds, crushed eggshells, dairy compost, dandelions, drip system, gardening maintenance, mulch, perennial weeds, shot weed, slug eggs on February 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Maintenance is the singularly most important work you can do in your garden. Having a garden is like having children; it needs nurturing and problem solving. Keeping your garden growing and thriving is what will make you into a fine gardener. Now the weather is warming up a little, spend some time walking through your [...]
