Plant Coops = Garden Bargains!

Plant Coops = Garden Bargains!

Online plant coops offer a cost-effective way to get your hands on the hottest new intro­duc­tions as SOON as they are available.”

Succulent Topiary Instructions/ Tutorial

Succulent Topiary Instructions/ Tutorial

Cre­at­ing a suc­cu­lent top­i­ary, wreath, or wall hang­ing is a rea­son­ably sim­ple process though patience is needed!”

Welcome Vege Nag!

Welcome Vege Nag!

I have fol­lowed VegeNag’s blog for awhile now and I’m thrilled that Alex (AKA: Veg­e­Nag) has agreed to post over here as our veg­etable gar­den­ing guru!  As the veg­etable gar­den­ing sea­son will soon be upon us, look for some posts from Alex that will help you get started grow­ing a tasty gar­den! Alex spent sev­eral years learn­ing (some­times   Continue…

How To Install Plastic Landscape Edging

How To Install Plastic Landscape Edging

I know what you’re think­ing– why in the world would I want tacky plas­tic edg­ing? Well, because it’s only tacky if it is improp­erly installed, and it is almost ALWAYS improp­erly installed!”

Agave Envy

Agave Envy

How­ever, one of the plants I most envy are Agaves. And that is actu­ally good news because they can be grown suc­cess­fully in Utah if you employ a few gar­den tricks.”

Design DON’Ts– The Landscape Island

Design DON’Ts– The Landscape Island

The ‘Land­scape Island’ is rarely a good design choice. A penin­sula is a MUCH bet­ter option!

Landscape Design Process

Landscape Design Process

In total, it took me more 20 hours of sketch­ing, ink­ing, copy­ing, and color ren­der­ing BY HAND to com­plete the color pro­duc­tion of the design (I am old school).

Lawn Alternatives for a Parkstrip

Lawn Alternatives for a Parkstrip

Park­strips offer up a low-risk way to try out water­wise plants.

Botanical Names– Say What?

Obvi­ously deter­min­ing and assign­ing botan­i­cal names is a com­plex oper­a­tion beyond the needed knowl­edge of non-botanists. How­ever, under­stand­ing the basic names will help you gar­den with more con­fi­dence and give you some­thing to lord over oth­ers at cock­tail parties! ”

‘Isla Gold’ Tansy

Isla Gold’ Tansy

The ferny yel­low new foliage of ‘Isla Gold ‘Tansy con­trasted with ‘African Sun­set’ Sedum. I’m a bit of a lazy gar­dener.  I think I some­times pre­fer the IDEA of gar­den­ing over the actual ACT of gar­den­ing!  Of course, I ratio­nal­ize it by say­ing that I need to under­stand how the plant will per­form WITHOUT exact­ing main­te­nance   Continue…

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