by Carol | Apr 17, 2014 | Garden Pests, Garden Tips, Spring Gardening
Azalea lace bug is a new pest that has decided rhododendrons are on the menu as well as azaleas. This seems like a big problem because azalea lace bug has multiple hatchings in a season and can do a lot of damage. The old rhododendron lace bug only hatched once a year...
by Carol | May 1, 2012 | Dramatic Flowers, Garden Tips, Spring Gardening, Summer Garden Tips
Hydrangea Love Protecting your plants from intense summer heat in Portland Oregon Here are several lessons in this story for you, O gentle reader………..how to successfully transplant a shrub or tree in July heat, how to prevent leaf and flower...
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 | 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...
by Carol | Sep 27, 2011 | Garden Tips, Plants I Recommend
How to Prune Your Lavender Plants – Best Practice How to Make Your Lavender Last for Ten Years-Prune Twice A Year In late winter, (January and February) pruning lavender is an optimistic and happy task. If you are in on the secret this is when lavender gets the...
