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Summer Garden Checklist

Summer Garden Checklist

Smart watering at dawn, regular deadheading, mid-season feeding, vigilant weeding, and quick pest checks form a simple checklist that keeps summer gardens lush, productive, and ready to enjoy.

Summer Garden Checklist

Smart watering at dawn, regular deadheading, mid-season feeding, vigilant weeding, and quick pest checks form a simple checklist that keeps summer gardens lush, productive, and ready to enjoy.

Plants Not Thriving?

When formerly vibrant plants start to languish, the culprit is usually pests, watering mistakes, light imbalance, or disease. This guide teaches you to read the tell-tale signs—sticky honeydew, crispy leaves,...

Plants Not Thriving?

When formerly vibrant plants start to languish, the culprit is usually pests, watering mistakes, light imbalance, or disease. This guide teaches you to read the tell-tale signs—sticky honeydew, crispy leaves,...

Melding Ancient with Modern

Melding Ancient with Modern

Ferns blend prehistoric pedigree with modern versatility, thriving indoors as air-purifying houseplants or outdoors in shady, humus-rich soil—and with varieties from Boston to Japanese Painted, they offer lush green or...

Melding Ancient with Modern

Ferns blend prehistoric pedigree with modern versatility, thriving indoors as air-purifying houseplants or outdoors in shady, humus-rich soil—and with varieties from Boston to Japanese Painted, they offer lush green or...

Winter Garden Design

Winter Garden Design

Winter gardens replace the season’s gray emptiness with color, fragrance, and wildlife. By mixing evergreens, berry-laden American holly, fragrant cedars, witch hazel’s winter blooms, and bark-showpieces like crepe myrtle, you...

Winter Garden Design

Winter gardens replace the season’s gray emptiness with color, fragrance, and wildlife. By mixing evergreens, berry-laden American holly, fragrant cedars, witch hazel’s winter blooms, and bark-showpieces like crepe myrtle, you...

The Perfect Backyard Bird Sanctuary

The Perfect Backyard Bird Sanctuary

Build a bird-friendly yard by layering native plants—tall canopy trees, berry shrubs, nectar flowers, and insect-rich groundcovers—for year-round food and shelter. Add feeders, birdhouses, and a clean water source, and...

The Perfect Backyard Bird Sanctuary

Build a bird-friendly yard by layering native plants—tall canopy trees, berry shrubs, nectar flowers, and insect-rich groundcovers—for year-round food and shelter. Add feeders, birdhouses, and a clean water source, and...

Plants to the Rescue

Plants to the Rescue

Storm-driven runoff can strip soil from any yard, but strategic fixes are simple: anchor slopes, downspouts, and soggy patches with root-dense groundcovers, grasses, ferns, or deep-rooted trees like weeping willow;...

Plants to the Rescue

Storm-driven runoff can strip soil from any yard, but strategic fixes are simple: anchor slopes, downspouts, and soggy patches with root-dense groundcovers, grasses, ferns, or deep-rooted trees like weeping willow;...

Edible Plants for Small Spaces

Edible Plants for Small Spaces

Even the tiniest balcony or windowsill can flourish with food—think dwarf peach trees, pots of fresh herbs, trellised grapes, espaliered apples, and compact mulberries—proving small-space gardens yield big harvests.

Edible Plants for Small Spaces

Even the tiniest balcony or windowsill can flourish with food—think dwarf peach trees, pots of fresh herbs, trellised grapes, espaliered apples, and compact mulberries—proving small-space gardens yield big harvests.

Climate-Resilient

Climate-Resilient Landscaping for Changing Cond...

It is no secret that traditional weather patterns are changing amid climate change.  It brings more variable and extreme weather, flooding, heatwaves, and warmer winters.  Where I live the last...

Climate-Resilient Landscaping for Changing Cond...

It is no secret that traditional weather patterns are changing amid climate change.  It brings more variable and extreme weather, flooding, heatwaves, and warmer winters.  Where I live the last...

Garden

7 Different Ways to Use Plants When Designing A...

Here are the most common uses to consider a plant for. Not every plant will work in every slot, but most plants will fit into at least one of these...

7 Different Ways to Use Plants When Designing A...

Here are the most common uses to consider a plant for. Not every plant will work in every slot, but most plants will fit into at least one of these...

Rock Garden

Designing A Rock Garden

Putting a rock garden on a slope mimics a natural rock outcrop. However, you can place a rock garden on gentle slopes or even on flat ground.

Designing A Rock Garden

Putting a rock garden on a slope mimics a natural rock outcrop. However, you can place a rock garden on gentle slopes or even on flat ground.

Topiaries

Creating Topiaries for Your Garden

Topiaries are fun and you can make them with live moss. Shop online at TN Nursery for a wide selection of moss.

Creating Topiaries for Your Garden

Topiaries are fun and you can make them with live moss. Shop online at TN Nursery for a wide selection of moss.

Creating A Healing Garden

Creating A Healing Garden

Gardens have a long history of being used for healing.  From Zen gardens in the 6th century that allowed monks to meditate without distractions to modern gardens in hospitals, arrangements...

Creating A Healing Garden

Gardens have a long history of being used for healing.  From Zen gardens in the 6th century that allowed monks to meditate without distractions to modern gardens in hospitals, arrangements...