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The Garden Guy wants to do his part to help you celebrate National Pollinator Week. If I were to write about all of the Proven Winners plants which are important to pollinators it would be about the length of the book War and Peace. My goal here is to help you focus and to maybe eliminate a few misconceptions.
The Garden Guy wants to do his part to help you celebrate National Pollinator Week. If I were to write about all of the Proven Winners plants which are important to pollinators it would be about the length of the book War and Peace. My goal here is to help you focus and to maybe eliminate a few misconceptions.
The Garden Guy wants to do his part to help you celebrate National Pollinator Week. If I were to write about all of the Proven Winners plants which are important to pollinators it would be about the length of the book War and Peace. My goal here is to help you focus and to maybe eliminate a few misconceptions.
The Garden Guy wants to do his part to help you celebrate National Pollinator Week. If I were to write about all of the Proven Winners plants which are important to pollinators it would be about the length of the book War and Peace. My goal here is to help you focus and to maybe eliminate a few misconceptions.
The Garden Guy wants to do his part to help you celebrate National Pollinator Week. If I were to write about all of the Proven Winners plants which are important to pollinators it would be about the length of the book War and Peace. My goal here is to help you focus and to maybe eliminate a few misconceptions.
Bones, Berries and Bark - The Keys to the Winter Landscape. A lot of people dread winter because the landscape can retreat from its beauty to one that looks more like Siberia. It doesn’t have to be that way if you can remember the three B’s, Bones, Berries, and Bark.
Go Green for Your Garden Improve Your Soil with Compost. Incorporating organic matter helps loosen tight heavy soils so they will drain or improve sandy soil's ability to hold water and nutrients. You win no matter your soil type.
With rains being almost non-existent for much of the region this past summer many of us have gone back to thinking about tough plants as well as water conservation.
It’s been in my lifetime that appliances started coming out with EER ratings. This is the Energy Efficient Rating from A through G and usually has an associated number like 10.4. Each appliance in your home including major heating and air-conditioning systems probably has these in bright yellow and easy to read. What about the landscape, what energy-efficient rating would it get?
A rain garden's basin collects and holds storm water for a short period of time, usually less than 24 hours. The soil absorbs the water and any pollutant particles. Proven Winners perennials like Upscale Monarda, Tuscan Sun heliopsis, Luminary phlox, Firefly yarrow and Storm Cloud amsonia, the Landscape Perennial of the Year, could all fit in a rain garden and help filter out the pollutants while providing water to the stems and leaves. The water evaporates back into the atmosphere from the plants.
