Perennially Yours Blog
There is something about full-flowered, rich blue Hydrangea blooms that sets your heart a’flutter. Maybe this only happens to those of us in colder zones (6 or lower) that find it so rare to have ANY flowers on our bigleaf Hydrangeas (pictured – Hydrangea macrophylla CITYLINE ‘Venice’). Let’s face the brutal facts. ALL bigleaf hydrangeas…
I thoroughly enjoyed your presentation (Webinar Radical Perennials). I have a very shady garden and am struggling with plants. You provided several options for this type of garden that are quite beautiful and I am looking forward to obtaining them and adding them to my sparse garden. I am especially interested in your Garden Care…
Kerry- This was SO cool!! My very FIRST webinar =D I love this distance learning, especially when weather is so prohibitive. When weather is nice, we are out in our gardens. So this is wonderful. I am going to transcribe my notes to your E-notes plant list and keep it handy. I have a landscape…
I hate having to repeat myself, but when it comes to digging in spring blooming bulbs each fall to replace those that fizzled away or were munched by critters, I CAN stop this expensive, repetitive madness. Now I plant long-lived, naturalizing bulbs that stick around for years. Here are a few of my tried and…
Allium senescens ‘Glaucum’ Great foliage and flowers combine to make this cute perennial impressive spring through fall. Personally it’s the leaves that I really adore. Twisting, swirling, blue-green foliage create fun ‘corsages’ that stay low to the ground. Round, lilac-pink flowers spring forth in late summer and are soon covered by happy butterflies. At 6”-12”…
Last month I announced my first national gardening Webinar – Radical Perennials: Nonstop Color! No-Fuss! Environmentally Responsible! Within weeks there were almost 100 people registered from across the country. How fun is that? The Webinar (a lecture delivered over the Internet) kicks-off on Thursday, October 27 at 2:00 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time) BUT, as long…
Sometimes you need a skinny plant to slip into a tight spot. A specimen that has great ‘posture’ and completes the design puzzle. Here are a few woody plants, evergreen and deciduous, to consider when you are literally ‘between a rock and a hard place’: (pictured right Boxwood ‘Graham Blandy’, photo ncsu.edu) Evergreen Boxwood (Buxus…
Each month I feature a couple of cool items from Gardener’s Supply Company, a mail-order and retail store based in Burlington, Vermont. This employee-owned company not only offers first-class items (many of them exclusive to Gardener’s), but it is also tremendously committed to offering earth-friendly products that help people garden in harmony with nature. Gardener’s…
The Massachusetts Horticultural Society manages a diverse plant evaluation program at The Gardens at Elm Bank in Wellesley, MA. As noted earlier in this newsletter, I was there for a fall conference which also provided a chance to walk through these spectacular trial beds. The New England Trial Garden was established in 1996 as a…
Time is running out to register for the first annual Fall Garden Conference at The Red Lion Inn on Thursday, October 20. The program features three lively gardening lectures by award-winning speakers, comprehensive handouts and plant catalogs, refreshments, special discount coupon from Ward’s Nursery (a nearby state-of-the-art garden center), door prizes and a complimentary plant…
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