I can see you scratching your head over this title! Orange has been considered an outrageous color for as long as I can remember. In fact, I remember being flabbergasted when I heard that the Color Marketing Institute had declared it one of this year's hot colors. I mean - ORANGE??? Can you even …

Sometimes, especially when gardening season is just getting launched, we can see in our mind's eye all the potential that our garden may have - if everything grows the way it should, if the weather is just right, if we can keep up with the weeds and deadheading and watering. Early garden season is …

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What most of us would really like to accomplish in our garden designs is big waves of color from spring through fall – and longer if we can manage it.  •  Trouble is – most of the plant world refuses to cooperate. If you can find a perennial that will obligingly emerge in spring and then bloom its …

Almost everyone agrees that spring is one of the most beautiful seasons in the garden. But I've often wondered why so many people associate gardens and gardening only with spring. What about the beautiful daylilies, Asian and Oriental lilies, butterfly bushes and hydrangeas of summer? Who could …

Have you ever noticed how each season seems to have its own set of colors?  •  Winter, of course, is in shades of white, gray, dark green and brown unless you've been clever enough to plant hellebores or shrubs with brightly colored berries and twigs.  •  In spring, it's the yellow and green of …

I swear my gardens must be Irish. As St. Patrick's Day approaches, it is certainly clothing itself in green everywhere.  •  And why shouldn't my garden be Irish on St. Paddy's Day? Isn't that the one day when the whole world becomes Irish? When, proud as I am of a name that shows its Dutch …

While in general bulbs are easy plants to grow, they can be difficult to understand, simply because there are so many different types. We have spring bulbs and summer bulbs, and then we have tender bulbs and hardy bulbs. And to confuse matters, not all of the so-called summer bulbs are tender and …

Ask the typical person about flowers and love and they will start talking about roses. And yet when you think about it, you have to wonder why. Roses have thorns (at least most of them – and almost all of the long stemmed ones associated with romantic gifts.) There has to be a less painful way to …