By Claire Jones
Garden Design magazine known for its in-depth articles and awesome images has a clean and easy to read design, free of ads. Over the years, I have started and stopped my subscriptions to different gardening magazines, but I will never give up this one. I don't review many print publications, but I felt that …
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If you have never grown blackberries, this is one of the easiest and most satisfying berry to grow. I started with one "cane" or stem of a thornless blackberry variety some years ago and it grew to be one ginormous mass of a plant. Taming the canes by growing them on a trellis of cattle fencing …
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Watering like a pro is easy if you follow a few basics and use the right equipment. Use these 10 tips for effective watering of your garden.
Quick breads are old fashioned and retro, but so delicious! Â Make this delicious Zucchini bread to use up some of your squash harvest this summer.
The best part of growing squash is the blossoms that are so tender and versatile in summer recipes.
Harvesting lavender is an aromatic job that I look forward to each year in July. There are many things that you can do with lavender but my favorite is a beautiful and fragrant wreath to decorate the house.
Last week was the official kick off of Pollinator Week, and the event has now grown to be an international celebration of the valuable ecosystem services provided by bees, birds, butterflies, bats and beetles.
A veteran of many flower shows in the U.S., I was excited to attend my first ever Chelsea Flower Show in London, a rite of passage for any serious garden lover.
Beekeepers, like farmers, still look outside in the natural world to gauge how to manage their honey crop. Black Locust blooming is a beekeeper sign to super up their hive for excess honey to harvest.
The scourge of most people's gardens, deer are cursed by everyone who plants a pricey carefully selected gem, that overnight becomes deer salad on the buffet line. The best defense against this concerted garden attack is to plant things that deer rarely if ever eat.... Kind of like putting out a liver dish for most people.
Pollinators are flying and searching for nectar and pollen to take back to their colony and the pickings are slim until the rest of the spring flowers open. Help them out with container plantings to supplement their foraging efforts
Native or non-native in the garden: Which is better? Simple- everyone knows the answer to that question...Natives of course! As gardeners, we have been bombarded with information about the value to wildlife of native plants and the more natives the better.
