Getting Snippy If you want more blooms and thicker foliage this summer, now is the time to break out the pruning shears and get whacking. March, with some exceptions, is the best time to prune summer and fall blooming specimens, and shape trees and shrubs. There are two basic pruning cuts, a heading cut and…
Throwing Shade When it comes to gardening, I’m not sure if I’m a slow learner, or simply a garden optimist. I have a yard with lots of shade and I tended to ignore that pesky detail when I picked my plants for the season. The happy, bright flowers at the nursery turned into sad pouting…
Spring Preening Pruning: If you haven’t pruned your plants yet, early spring April is your last chance for a hard prune. Light shaping is fine until early fall, but now’s the time to trim down the bushes that have lost their shape, or need new growth to bloom this year. For blooming plants, you want…
I approach gardening the same way I approached sending my kids to summer camp. “Have a great time Sweetie, I hope the weather is great and I’ll see you in a few weeks!” That approach didn’t work so well this August. Not with the campers (you can barely see the scar), but with my window…
