If you are looking at your lawn these days and saying, “It was so beautiful in the spring!” don’t despair.
Acadia National Park was featured on the “Today” show this week, so any doubts about blogging our visit to the Asticou Gardens while there in June for my daughter’s college graduation were dashed aside! If the Today show can do it…so can I!
Last year we looked at pictures from the Thuja Gardens which are located […]
About 10 years ago, as the proud new owner of 3 acres in Goochland County, I decided to try my hand at creating a living fence.
I had seen living fences in English and French garden books for years. The trained trunks were geometrically shape with squares, parallel lines or diagonals. I […]
Part of the charm of a garden is the illusion that has been around forever with little effort in maintaining it. Ha!
For most gardens, you have to get a running start and prune, transplant or buy […]
Tis the season for poison ivy to run rampant. If you are not sure what this weed looks like, take a look at this picture. Even the National Arboretum in Washington DC has it as a plant specimen.
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