Articles
Here you will find a wide variety of articles covering every aspect of gardening you can think of. From the things you should think about in the spring to how to put your garden to bed in the fall you will find all kinds of tips and ideas for your garden in my archive of articles. I have arranged the articles into categories that make sense. Some of the categories deal with the practical aspects of seeds or catalogues, others are more about the esoteric aspects of crating outdoor living spaces and design.
I am always adding new pieces. I invite you explore the many topics I cover and return whenever you are looking to solve a problem or need a little inspiration and encouragement.
- Against All Odds?Two intrepid gardeners battle the elements to create a coastal paradise
- All about roses
- Alluring White Nursery Picks
- An Artist’s Garden
- Architectural Plants
- Autumn Colour
- Autumn Garden Chores
- Autumn Into Winter Containers
- Autumn Special
- Backstage pass to a private oasis
- Best Clumping Bamboos
- Black beauties
- Brugmansia
- Bulb planning and catalogues
- Bulb primer
- Bulbs and Autumn Planting
- Burgundy Foliage
- Cabin Fever
- Cabin Fever: The Elements
- Children in the Garden
- Closer Look At Bamboo
- Container Gardening
- Container Notes-Paul Zammit and Uli Havermann share tips and plant picks
- Cultivating Patience
- Dead Spaces
- Deadheading
- Divide and Conquer in the Garden
- Do no harm is a tenet not just for doctors
- Echeverias and sempervivums
- Essential Plants
- Five easy ways to shed clutter
- Frenetic Weekend
- Gardening Special?Autumn Planting
- Getting a garden book as a gift
- Global Warming
- Going Native
- Green Monsters
- Hiring a Pro
- How Colourful is My Border
- How to Choose Annuals
- How to make a Pleached Hedge
- How to Overwinter Potted Plants
- How to Pick a Perennial
- Hypericum androsaemum ‘Aubrey’s purple’, St. John’s Wort
- I am not now nor have ever been a flower arranger
- In a constant state of re-education: autumn planting and Prairie ecosystems
- Indoor Healthy Air
- Invasive Plants
- Invasives
- Lighting
- Lighting in the garden
- Lonicera japonica ‘Aureoreticulata’, yellow-net honeysuckle
- Make a Garden Map
- Make this garden your own
- Nemesia fruticans – Blue bird
- Opposites (Don’t) Attract
- Orange Plants
- Osmocote is a difficult product to find
- Plagues and Pestilence
- Planting Upwards
- Plants to keep in mind?Plant Checklist
- Pots and Pangs
- Potted oasis
- Pregardening
- Pruning: Derek Welsh’s Tips
- Putting the Garden to Bed
- Q&A – Your letters answered
- Building a cactus garden
- Clearing ants
- Good garden uses for fireplace ashes
- Growing grape hyacinth indoors
- Growing on a septic field
- How to battle weeds between flagstone and alternative options
- How to control Japanese knotweed
- Improving asparagus garden
- Maintaining Boston ivy growth
- Maintaining redbud trees
- Mysterious orange powder on the lawn
- Planting trees near a swale
- Plants to highlight a pool
- Preventing red beetles from attacking lilies
- Reshaping Yew Tree
- Salt- and drought-tolerant flowering plants
- Stopping powdery mildew on maples
- The best way to convert a lawn into a meadow
- The best way to replace a lawn
- The proper way to grow rhododendrons
- The proper way to plant astrantia
- Using black walnut leaves for mulch
- What is a star flower and how do I manage it?
- What to do with end-of-season potatoes on the vine
- What to grow in a dry area
- Reality Bites
- Second Planting Season
- September Planting
- Sheer Delight
- Small Worlds
- Soil
- Spring Planting and Preparation
- Summer Clean-up
- Summer Containers
- Taste of Versailles
- The Acoustic Garden
- The Leishman Garden
- The Tschoke Problem
- The Urban Courtyard
- Timeless Ferns
- Tips for Coastal Gardening
- Tom Deacon: Between the lines
- Top 5 Ferns for your Garden
- Trends, Winter 2008
- Victoria Flowers & Gardens
- Watering
- Weird Weather Woes
- Why Do Paths Look So Ditzy?
- Winter Gardens
