by Carol | Feb 20, 2012 | Garden Tips, Spring Gardening, Winter Gardening
Garden Tips: Top 5 Early Spring Garden Prep Tips Here are my Top 5 garden tips for things to do January to early March: Cut back deciduous (gets dead looking in winter) grasses to 2″ tall stubble. Fountain grass, switch grass and japanese silver grass are just...
by Carol | Feb 11, 2012 | Garden Tips, Plants I Recommend, Winter Gardening
Don’t miss seeing the bare stems of witch hazel come alive with bright yellow or red orange flowers. I stopped en route to The Oregon Garden last Saturday to take photos of a field of flowering witch-hazel. I could feel the dozens of hummingbirds working these...
by Carol | Dec 9, 2011 | Garden Tips, Winter Gardening
Slug Love Here come Paul and Mary kissing in a tree, K I S S I N G……………Well, slug love is like most other kinds of love and produces little slugs sooner rather than later. Right now they are curling up under your fallen leaves making...
by Carol | Dec 5, 2011 | Fall Gardening, Garden Tips, Winter Gardening
Buyer Beware! Watch out for fall discount plants at nurseries or garden stores. When you select plants on the leftover table at nurseries you are running some risks. The top of the pot will be chock full of weed seeds and the roots may well harbor larvae of...
by Carol | Dec 2, 2011 | Fall Gardening, Garden Tips, Winter Gardening
Winterize your irrigation system. This may mean flushing out an older system, or just draining your drip system. Bait for slugs all through fall and early winter. Don’t bait for slugs if you live in the woods, you will kill all the big native slugs who...
