“The purpose of pruning is to improve the quality of the roses, not to hurt the bush.” - Florence Littauer Pruning is an important step in our garden care routine to keep our plants healthy and thriving. It might seem counterintuitive to help your plants grow by cutting away from them, but trimming unhelpful [...]
“Working together is success.” - Henry Ford Your container is it’s own enclosed world. All the plants living in it have to share space and resources with each other, and it is impossible to make more room. Your unassuming flowers are each working hard to get as much sunlight, water, nutrients, and space as [...]
“To be able to walk out the door when you come home from a job and wander into the garden to do a bit of watering gives you time to be creative in your mind.” - Mary Berry We’re lucky to live in an area where water comes right out of the tap. It’s just [...]
“The late afternoon sunlight, warm as oil, sweet as childhood…” - Stephen King, Carrie One of the most frequent gardening concerns we hear is about sunlight - and for good reason. It’s arguably one of the most important factors in your garden! Getting sun exposure just right can be the difference between your beloved [...]
“Gardening has always been an art, essentially.” - Robert Irwin Container gardening is an art. Not only can anyone do it and be good at it, but each container is its own living sculpture, full of all your favorite plants. Like most art forms, your container garden will look its best when a few guidelines [...]
"So fair, so cold; like a morning of pale spring still clinging to winter's chill." - J. R. R. Tolkien It’s spring and many of us are eager to get outside and work in our gardens! The nights are still chilly and the occasional day is a little cold for some warm season favorites, [...]
"The earth laughs in flowers" - Ralph Waldo Emerson Gardening is both constant and constantly changing. The rules of how to keep our beloved plants alive are steady year to year, but with constantly revolving seasons, we also have changes in gardening trends. Container gardening is the ideal way to explore new gardening trends [...]
