Get Ready for Garden Season
It’s time to clean up your garden beds and borders and get them ready for spring…
Deer-Proofing Your Garden
Deer take a toll on many area gardens, as the population expands and development shrinks the amount of open space on the East End.
Screening your Property for Privacy
Towering walls of perfectly sheared privet provide privacy for many homes on the East End.
Intoxicating Roses
Roses delight us with their colors and scents. They’re versatile, too, ranging in size from miniatures just inches high to climbers that can be trained to scale a fence or wall, or cover an arbor. Roses come in many colors, from pastels to…
Tropical Flowers for Summer Decks and Patios
It’s summertime on the East End and decks and patios are setting up for outdoor living and entertaining.
Herbs For Your Garden
Herbs are indispensable in the kitchen, and if you’ve only bought them in jars in the supermarket you may be surprised at how different they taste when you pick them fresh from your garden.
Dazzling Dahlias Bring Color all Summer Long
Dahlias are excellent additions to East End flower gardens, in the ground or in containers. The plants bloom nonstop all summer until frost shuts them down; they reach their peak in many gardens in August and September…
Start a Garden this Year!
Never tried gardening before? There’s nothing mysterious about it. Anyone can garden, and I believe everyone should, even if the garden is just a couple of plants in flowerpots.
Welcome Spring
In flower gardens and landscapes, spring begins with bulbs. Here on the East End some of the earliest — and most welcome — color in our landscapes and gardens comes from bulbs.
The Garden in Fall
Gardening is a rewarding and even healing activity, and also gives us the benefit of fresh-picked food, beautiful flowers and soothing greenery, not to mention time spent in the fresh air instead of in front of a screen.
