To Hellebore With the Rules Sometimes you have to break the rules a little bit. Generally, the end of fall signals a break in adding plants to your garden, and it’s a smart move if your ground freezes over the winter. Here in Richmond however, a cold spell long enough to freeze the ground…
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…
Now is the perfect time to design your garden and order or pick-up your seeds. My master gardener friends have alerted me that seed supplies for 2021 will be smaller than normal, and demand will be higher than usual since people are staying at home. Remember that feeling of satisfaction when you snatched the last…
