Kramer's Red Winter Heath Archives - Garden Sanity by Pet Scribbles

Snowy Winter Garden Tour: Winter Color and Texture

Laura — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 23:02:55 +0000

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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Early December Garden: blooms, berries and red leaves

Laura — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 18:09:42 +0000

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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Foundation garden beds in Fall: a November garden tour

Laura — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 00:10:49 +0000

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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Fall Garden Tour with red and yellow twig dogwoods

Laura — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 15:49:17 +0000

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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Fall Garden Tour featuring color and texture!

Laura — Sat, 31 Oct 2020 19:41:51 +0000

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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Early Fall Garden Tour: Front Yard, Center Bed

Laura — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 17:27:23 +0000

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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Embracing the green garden when no flowers are blooming

Laura — Fri, 29 May 2020 14:58:43 +0000

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: images from my garden

Laura — Tue, 12 May 2020 15:36:43 +0000

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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Why you want Blue Star Juniper in your garden

Laura — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 16:24:38 +0000

Blue Star Juniper is an easy to grow small evergreen shrub with stunning blue-green garden color. Learn more including companion plant ideas in this helpful guide. Don’t knock the small size of Blue Star Junipers. Their striking blue color makes up for their short height. An evergreen that’s blue? Yes please! Table of Contents What...

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The end of the growing season and how I feel.

Laura — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 23:30:14 +0000

Gardening doesn’t stop with the end of the growing season. I can’t seem to say goodbye to the season’s final flowers because gardening is therapy for me. It’s mid-November, the end of the growing season. The steady freezing temperatures at night will be here any moment. We’ve already had one or two below-32-degree nights. I...

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