Gardening Tips and Plant Care Blog
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How to Design Your Dream Garden: A Beginning Groundwork Guide for Every Type of Gardener
Every season has its role to play in the garden, even Winter. January starts one of the most exciting, and perhaps daunting, gardening phases: planning. It’s the time when seed catalogs start piling up, saved images start inspiring new ideas, and backyard daydreams start taking shape. For many, though, this stage also brings a familiar feeling of not knowing where to begin.
That’s why we’re starting a new blog series: How to Design Your Dream Garden. Throughout the year, we’ll explore what it really takes to design a garden that fits your space, your needs, and your hopes for the season ahead. We’ll walk through everything from planning basics and layout decisions to plant selection, structures, and creative themes.
We’re gardeners, just like you, and we know that our readers might be total beginners or experts who’ve been at it for years. So, this series is built to meet you wherever you are, with guidance that supports both small containers and full backyards.
This first post focuses on the early groundwork: observing your space, identifying your goals, and building a plan that supports real-life use. It’s the step that sets everything else in motion.
This is the year to bring your dream garden to life.
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Winter Plant Care in Zone 6 That Helps Your Garden Thrive
Frost crystals edge your trees’ leaves, your lawn crunches underfoot, and your garden beds icily glisten in the clean, white, winter sun. With the first hard freeze, winter arrives and changes the landscape quickly.
In Zone 6, that first freeze marks the beginning of active winter care. Cold snaps, snowfall, and fluctuating temperatures can damage exposed roots, weaken perennials, and stress container plants that are left unprotected. Without a bit of attention, it’s easy to lose growth you worked hard for all season.
This blog will walk you through what to do, when to do it, and which plants can keep your garden going through the cold months ahead.
Fresh Holiday Greenery Tips and Ideas to Help You Deck the Halls
The winter holidays have always been tied to the sight and scent of greenery. Fresh boughs carried inside on a frosty day bring with them the sharp fragrance of pine and the lively gloss of holly leaves. For generations, families have hung wreaths on doors, wound garlands around banisters, and placed colorful poinsettias by the hearth as a way of filling their homes with life when the garden outside lay sleeping. Decorating with fresh greenery is a tradition that connects us to the past while making our homes feel festive in the present.
Fall Garden Prep That Sets the Stage for Next Season’s Color
When the air turns crisp and the maples blaze in reds and golds, many gardeners feel that familiar urge to call it a wrap on the season. Beds look a little tired, containers aren’t as full, and it feels like the year’s best color has passed.
But fall holds more potential than many realize.
Seasonal Secrets for Fall Planting: Trees, Shrubs, and Perennials That Thrive
The leaves are whispering their way to the ground. The air carries a crispness that lingers in your sleeves. And the soil? Still warm, still welcoming, still working. Fall is a quiet season in the garden, but not a sleepy one. This is the time when experienced gardeners lean in. While others are winding down, they’re planting.
The Beginner’s Guide to Fall Vegetable Gardening in USDA Zone 6
The days are getting shorter, the tomatoes are tired, and your cucumbers might be calling it quits... But your garden doesn’t have to.