Lavender Phenomenal is one of the hardiest evergreen lavenders around. It handles heat, humidity and rough Winter weather with ease! Learn why you will love this lavender! A few years ago, I wrote an article here about how to harvest lavender the easy way. A reader asked what type of lavender I had in my...

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Enjoy this snowy Winter garden tour of our front yard garden beds, filled with evergreens, grasses and gorgeous Winter-blooming heath. There’s also plenty of fox and rabbit tracks! We finally had snow here in southern New Jersey! It wasn’t much, but the snow was enough for me to enjoy! I filmed a YouTube video showing...

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Enjoy my early December garden with Winter heath and heather blooming, vibrant pink-orange berries on euonymus shrubs and red leaves on Little Henry Virginia Sweetspire. Includes video! I shared this photo of me (below) recently on social media, and said, “Why am I smiling?” before continuing to explain why. I’m smiling because the Kramer’s Red...

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Enjoy this garden tour of our front yard foundation garden beds in Fall. These easy-care foundation plantings provide beautiful color year round. Includes video! My final Fall Garden Tour for this season? The foundation garden beds in our grass-free front yard. Below are several images of the garden beds, and at the end of this...

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Enjoy this November garden tour of our front yard “other” side bed featuring red twig and yellow twig dogwoods, a river birch tree, Knock Out roses, grasses, evergreens and perennials. Includes video! The other side bed in our front yard — for lack of a better name — is an easy bed to maintain, mainly...

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Enjoy this Fall garden tour of one of the side beds in our front yard! In mid-Fall, this bed features color and texture from drying Little Lime Hydrangeas, Piglet grasses, perennials plus several evergreens in varying shades of green. This time of year, when many perennials have finished up for the season, there is still...

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Enjoy this early Fall garden tour of our main center bed in our grass-free front yard. It’s a large half circle filled with annuals, perennials, shrubs and a crepe myrtle tree as the centerpiece. This short video walks you around our main garden bed in our front yard. This is filmed in early October, here...

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Are your trees and hydrangeas turning brown since Tropical Storm Isaias? My River Birch trees and Little Lime Hydrangeas suddenly look like late Fall has arrived. Here’s what I’ve learned so far. Tropical Storm Isaias hit us here in southern New Jersey on August 4th. Our neighborhood didn’t appear to suffer any major damage other...

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Blue Star Kalimeris (Kalimeris incisa Blue Star) is an easy-care perennial. Loves heat and humidity. Pale blue flowers bloom all Summer. A must-have plant for your flower garden! I’ve been working on my gardens almost non-stop this season. Sometimes I almost feel like it isn’t truly gardening, as my chores have included things like scraping...

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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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