Garden Inspiration Archives - Garden Sanity by Pet Scribbles https://www.petscribbles.com/category/garden-inspiration/ Gardening is my sanity Tue, 01 Mar 2022 17:49:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.petscribbles.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-favicon-1-32x32.png Garden Inspiration Archives - Garden Sanity by Pet Scribbles https://www.petscribbles.com/category/garden-inspiration/ 32 32 Do Panicle Hydrangeas Handle Winter Snow? https://www.petscribbles.com/do-panicle-hydrangeas-handle-winter-snow/ https://www.petscribbles.com/do-panicle-hydrangeas-handle-winter-snow/#respond Tue, 01 Mar 2022 17:49:23 +0000 https://www.petscribbles.com/?p=20715 Little Quick Fire panicle hydrangea flowerhead with snow

Do panicle hydrangeas — like Limelight, Pinky Winky, Little Lime and Little Quick Fire — handle Winter snow? Yes, and much better than other hydrangea varieties! This article with video discusses several panicle hydrangea varieties in the snow. A True Test of Hydrangeas and Snowstorms I am a gardener who believes strongly that our gardens...

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]]> https://www.petscribbles.com/do-panicle-hydrangeas-handle-winter-snow/feed/ 0 Finding the Good in Your Garden https://www.petscribbles.com/finding-the-good-in-your-garden/ https://www.petscribbles.com/finding-the-good-in-your-garden/#respond Wed, 13 Oct 2021 21:13:12 +0000 https://www.petscribbles.com/?p=20563 ageratum and black eyed susans

Today I’m sharing a photo and video collage of what’s blooming in my zone 7, Southern New Jersey garden. I’m doing this to encourage you to do the same and find the good in your garden — after a season of heat, humidity, tropical storms, floods and whatever else Mother Nature has thrown at us...

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]]> https://www.petscribbles.com/finding-the-good-in-your-garden/feed/ 0 Embracing the green garden when no flowers are blooming https://www.petscribbles.com/embracing-the-green-garden-when-no-flowers-are-blooming/ https://www.petscribbles.com/embracing-the-green-garden-when-no-flowers-are-blooming/#respond Fri, 29 May 2020 14:58:43 +0000 https://www.petscribbles.com/?p=17738 the green garden without flowers

The green garden comes into its own when no flowers are blooming. Spring is finished and Summer just getting started. Here is my soothing green garden in detail. That space between the Spring blooming bulbs, flowering shrubs and trees, and Summer garden flowers blooming profusely, is completely green. Everything is simply green in the garden....

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Spring flowers in my garden do something important: they lift my spirits, alleviating moments of anxiousness or depression. Spring flowers offer hope. Enjoy these images from my garden. I’ve been planting bulbs every Fall for the past two years, and trust me: once you begin planting bulbs you won’t ever stop! At least I won’t!...

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Some thoughts on my backyard garden bed in Winter for this week’s Six on Saturday gardening post. Six things going on in my own little gardening world. As I write this, our foggy morning has quickly turned into a severe rainstorm. We’ve had rain on and off for three days now, and our garden beds...

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Learn how to get brilliant Fall color in the garden with my six easy tips! Use the existing garden color you already have, then add texture, color and even evergreens! You will love the colorful examples featured in this article. I love Fall gardening! Not only do you get to enjoy an ever-changing color show,...

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Join me as I share photos of my June garden, including Red and Yellow Twig Dogwoods, Roses, Geranium Rozanne, Astilbes, Dianthus and more. What is Six on Saturday? Anyone who loves to garden can participate in Six on Saturday. We all share six photos of what’s happening in our gardens that week. You can see...

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The 2019 Philadelphia Flower Show was filled with colorful flowers and plants. Here are my best photos for garden ideas from the Flower Power themed show! I attended the Philadelphia Flower Show for the first time this year and found so many garden ideas! This year’s 2019 theme was Flower Power, and the amount of...

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What happened to Spring marching into the garden like a lion? Not yet this year, but the gardens continue to stir and stretch a bit. Spring is on the way! For today’s Six on Saturday photos from my garden, I’m sharing a sort of hodge-podge of what I’ve seen this week. This week’s series of...

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There are early signs of Spring in the garden, and I am so excited to share them with you! Bulbs are peeking out of the ground and Heather is in full bloom! We had snow again earlier this week, covering everything for a day. I love the snow, and love the Winter season, but I’m...

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