Have you ever walked out to the garden in spring and tried to remember what went so well in that one bed last year: the variety name, the planting date, when it started blooming? Or why has that corner had a slug problem every August? Memory is unreliable. Six months is a long time, and…
Did you know you can create new lavender starts from your existing plant? Follow along as I share 4 easy ways to propagate lavender cuttings with step-by-step instructions. This guide provides four easy methods for lavender plant propagation: rooting stem cuttings in water, rooting stem cuttings in soil, plants propagating themselves, and hilling. Each method…
Do you worry about what a sudden summer heatwave could do to your garden? In this post, I share how to protect your garden from extreme heat and lower the stress on your favorite flowers. I never thought I would write about protecting the garden from extreme heat on my blog. That’s because our average…
It took me years to discover that some of the best things I could do for my garden had nothing to do with fertilizer or fancy tools. Pairing the right flowers and herbs together, what gardeners call companion planting, turned out to be one of the simplest and most rewarding changes I ever made. In…
There is a simple technique that can completely change what your cut flower garden produces. More stems. More blooms. Fuller, bushier plants that hold up through the season. It’s called pinching, and once I discovered it, I could not believe I had been gardening without it. As a new flower gardener, I had no idea…
Nobody gets into gardening for the weeding. But if you want healthy beds and happy plants, staying on top of weeds is just part of the deal. Over the years, I’ve tried a lot of different approaches, some that worked beautifully and a few that didn’t do much at all. What I’ve landed on is…