“By all these lovely tokens, September days are here. With summer’s best of weather and autumn’s best of cheer.” — Helen Hunt Jackson In 1875, Helen Hunt married William Jackson of Colorado Springs and made Colorado her home. Surely, they had our shared experiences of September days being noticeably shorter, with cooler nights and pleasant daytime weather. I wonder what …
Read More »
Over the weekend, the UC Master Gardeners hosted a workshop at Napa’s Las Flores Learning Garden, which opened last summer, focusing on creating drought-resistant gardens suited to survive the seasons — and fluctuating water levels — in California. Your story lives in the Napa Valley. Get in-depth stories from the Napa region and beyond – including news, sports, features and politics. The …
Read More »
Norman Winter Tribune News Service This year The Garden Guy went into the growing season with a twofold plan involving jumbo Heart to Heart caladium bulbs. Truly they have been among the stars of the hottest summer I can remember. My plan was that I would plant half the bulbs in situ. (I always wanted to use that phrase.) This …
Read More »
Immediately after I completed my horticultural training back in the mid-1970s, I took a job restoring, as best I could, a beautiful old estate on the Palisade cliffs of the Hudson River. Designed by the Olmsted Brothers, the successor to the firm founded by the co-designer of New York’s Central Park, Frederick Law Olmsted, it had once been a showplace, …
Read More »
SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. (KGUN) — Hailey and Ryan Miloni are sharing their love of plants and gardening with people in Sierra Vista and the surrounding communities. “I don’t know what my favorites are, because I have lots of favorites,” Hailey Miloni said. The couple opened Flora Factory Indoor Garden Supply at 697 E. Fry Blvd. in Sierra Vista back in …
Read More »
Are you looking for color, variety and texture in your landscape? Adding wildflowers might be the solution as an eye-catching niche garden or an expansive pollinator meadow. A wildflower meadow — a blend of wildflower varieties with native grasses such as Switchgrass, Side Oats Grama and Little Bluestem — benefits bees, insects and wildlife with food and habitat. It is …
Read More »
Landscaping with native plants is the topic of the Lake To Prairie Wild Ones meeting from 7 to 8 p.m. Sept. 5 at Fremont Public Library, 1170 N. Midlothian Road, Mundelein. Dave Neu, Wild Ones national board director and owner of NatureSpaceLLC, will discuss why native plants are beneficial, how to evaluate site conditions, and creating landscape designs in harmony …
Read More »