How to Identify Snake Holes in Your Yard—and What to Do After
Learn how to identify, deal with, and prevent snake holes in your yard. Stay vigilant and protect your home from potential dangers.
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Low-Cost Landscaping: Tips to Improve Your Compound
Are you looking to enhance the beauty of your compound without breaking the bank? Look no further! We have some fantastic tips that will help you achieve a stunning landscape…
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How to Build and Maintain a Koi Pond: A Complete Guide
Are you considering building a koi pond in your backyard? Koi ponds not only add beauty and serenity to your outdoor space, but they also provide a home for these…
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Choosing the Right Food for Your Koi Fish
When it comes to keeping koi fish, providing them with a balanced and nutritious diet is essential for their health and well-being. The right food can not only enhance the…
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Can I Keep Other Fish with My Koi Fish?
Keeping koi fish in your pond can be a delightful and rewarding experience. These beautiful and vibrant fish can bring life and color to any outdoor space. However, many koi…
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Choosing the Right Filter for Your Koi Pond
Having a koi pond in your backyard can be a beautiful and relaxing addition to your outdoor space. However, maintaining the water quality in your pond is crucial for the…
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Choosing the Perfect Location for Your Koi Pond
Having a beautiful koi pond in your backyard can bring serenity and tranquility to your outdoor space. However, one of the most crucial decisions you’ll have to make is choosing…
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A Vegetable Garden for Everyone: Discovering the True Meaning of Fresh
Many people have noticed the escalating price of fresh produce at the local supermarket and from the wayside stands that offer us our daily intake of vegetables and fruits. Unfortunately,…
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Evergreens – the Perfect Winter Backdrop: Designing Landscapes for Winter Color
Evergreens are plants that people seem to either love or hate. Usually, the hate stems from a series of failures to get them to survive through their first winter. Others…
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The Active Winter Gardener: a Time for Planning Ahead
I don’t know where the illusion first originated, but most non-gardeners live under the false perception that winter is a time of rest. For a true Northscaper, this couldn’t be…
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The Wonderful World Of Hydrangeas
When gardeners think of hydrangeas, they often associate them with the deep South, the showy blue or pink mop-headed flowers boldly encircling the foundation of some lovely manor or estate.…
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Fall Fun for the Whole Family: Activities and Crafts for the Autumn Season
Fall is one of my favorite times of the year. The weather is neither too cold nor too hot, the vegetable garden is yielding its delectable goodies for me to…
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Understanding Winter Hardiness
Among the many factors that define the northern gardening experience and the use of plants in the north, none is more prominent than the concept of winter hardiness. Almost all northerners…
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Never Hug a Barberry: Exposing the Thorny, Spiny Truth
Most gardeners and home landscapers are aware (or become aware at some point in their lives) that there’s no such thing as the “perfect” plant – all plants have their…
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Mums the Word This Fall: a Chrysanthemum Craze is Sweeping the North!
Does your garden bloom vigorously right through into October? There’s no excuse for it not to, especially when you have chrysanthemums in your gardening palette! Yes, the mighty garden mum,…
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All the Colors of the Iris Rainbow
Each night during the blooming season, you will find me outdoors among the irises. I love the fragrance, the color, and the sizes. It reminds me of a new day…
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New Plant Varieties – More Than Meets the Eye: Breeding Plants to Be Hardier and Healthier
Every spring when growers announce their new plant varieties, gardeners eagerly check out the hot new varieties that have a distinctive look. Last year the big excitement was centered on…
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The Makings of Tomato Magic: Techniques for Starting Tomatoes From Seed
When I took up gardening some forty years ago, bedding plants were unknown to country general stores. Gardeners propagated their own seedlings – tomatoes, cabbages, peppers, etc. – usually in…
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The Magic of Variegation: Interest Through Enduring Colors
Color is one of the fundamental landscape attributes for creating interest, and it’s hard to miss the critical role it plays in our yards and gardens. We immediately notice a…
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Amazing Grapes: Hardy Varieties for Northern Gardens
In the first part of this two-part article, we examined how to grow grapes in a northern climate (click here to view the first article in this series). In this article,…
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