Winter is often the best time to do pruning and thinning on almost all your trees and shrubs. Although winter and early spring is a great time to prune, if the tree or shrub is a spring flowering plant and the blooms are important to you, it may be best to wait and prune that plant shortly after it is done blooming.
When it comes to sustainable land care, St Francis of Assisi is considered by many to be the patron saint of those who promote sustainability within nature. This is an imaginary ( or maybe not) conversation between St. Francis and God…as you read this contemplate the thoughts within and see if you don’t start looking at your lawn differently!
When it comes to sustainable landscaping practices, it is best to be proactive in your approach. With that in mind; many of us celebrate the holiday season by decorating a live evergreen Christmas tree, so you may be better off if you dig your Christmas tree hole now before the ground freezes.
Wild Pink is a showy native perennial wildflower with loose clusters of rosy, pink blooms that appear in the spring. The plant is semi-evergreen, compact, mounding, and mat-forming.
Dicentra eximia, commonly called fringed bleeding heart, is a native wildflower of the eastern United States that typically occurs on forest floors, rocky woods and ledges in the Appalachian Mountains.
Cutleaf toothwort, cardamine concatenata is one of the earliest blooming spring wildflowers found amidst moist forests and woodland beds. The common name of toothwort refers to the tooth-like projections on the underground stems, which are leaf scars from the previous seasons growth.
When you think of your garden beds do you yearn for a garden requiring less maintenance and water? A garden with a more diverse selection of wildflowers and pollinator plants with a greater biodiversity all the while having a healthier growing soil or growing medium. If so, then ecological gardening may be right for you. In the past, we have asked one thing of our gardens: that they be pretty. Now they have to support life, sequester carbon, feed pollinators and manage water.