Get in Shape with Shrubs
One of the best kept secrets for creating a glorious garden is to use shapes and forms to define your garden’s personality. Tall and columnar shapes suggest formality while billowy, loose forms are typically more informal. Shrubs are an easy way to get started with this design principle because their shapes are easy to identify. […]
9 Fall Shrubs that will Transform your Garden
Shrubs have always been the backbone of good garden design, but with recent improvements to flowering, foliage color and plant form they are becoming popular for more than their structural assets. The merits of this new generation of shrubs transform their purpose from hedges and backdrops to something more like a perennial; a low maintenance […]
Winter Berry Production
I have a holly bush in my garden that usually produces lovely red berries in the fall and winter. This year there are only a few berries. What happened? I’m often asked why a plant doesn’t produce berries and typically it could be one of three reasons. Some plants have to have a male and […]
How to Care for Dwarf Alberta Spruce
We purchased a dwarf Alberta Spruce tree, approximately 3 ft. tall rooted in a 3 gallon container, which we decorated lightly for Christmas. I would like to know how to keep it and when to move it outside. We are in the cold Northeast. The dwarf Alberta spruce is a plant for which I have […]