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Archive for May, 2010
Accent plantings in the landscape garden
Posted in landscape design, Visits to nice gardens, tagged Harce, hydrangeas, redneck waterfall, Requiem for a Redneck, special spots in the garden on May 30, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Pondering landscape design in the urban southeast
Posted in landscape design, plant and garden how to, Uncategorized, tagged entrance way planting, grass free front yard, landscape design concepts on May 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Thoughts on landscape design in the urban southeast. I guess little kids can remember different sorts of things. I can remember a couple of the houses that I lived in during the early 1950s in a small town in the piedmont area of North Carolina. These houses didn’t have closed foundations, but were built on [...]
Summertime care for Knockout roses
Posted in plant and garden how to, pruning, Uncategorized, tagged dead bloom knockout rose, deadheading knockout roses, knockout roses, Osmocote, re bloom knockout roses, shake 'n feed, time release fertilizer on May 15, 2010 | 6 Comments »
What to do when the blooms start to fade on your Knockout roses.
Boys and Girls Club vegetable garden update
Posted in Boys and Girls Club vegetable garden, plant and garden how to, Uncategorized on May 9, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Garden update–Boys and Girls Club vegetable garden Mother’s Day–It was time to check on the garden at the Maple Street Boys and Girls Club here in lovely Rome, Georgia. The garden is a project of the Three Rivers Garden Club and is sponsored by the Rome Federated Garden guild. I have been involved in the [...]
An intimate meditation garden in a gated community
Posted in Uncategorized, Visits to nice gardens, tagged courtyard garden, meditation garden, perennial flower bed, raised beds perennials on May 2, 2010 | 6 Comments »
An intimate meditation garden in a gated community. Sylvia sent me a picture via email the other day. The picture conveyed a message, “you need to come see this.” I grinned and decided that I should take Dekie and the trusty camera to get a look at her yard. Here’s the picture she sent: Julie Windler had called [...]
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