The arrival of the heavy, wet snow recently has been a very welcome sight not only for the water reserves for next summer, but also for the ski areas and recreationists as well. Even though the snow is very much needed, it can sometimes wreak havoc with your landscaping and the plants in your yard, […]

Gardeners often talk about how a good, cold winter will kill off the insect populations, yet each spring and summer brings an overabundance of bugs in the yard. Insects are not endothermic – able to generate their own heat internally. Instead they are ectothermic which means that they must rely on external sources to provide […]

The arrival of the heavy, wet snow recently has been a very welcome sight not only for the water reserves for next summer, but also for the ski areas and recreationists as well. Even though the snow is very much needed, it can sometimes wreak havoc with your landscaping and the plants in your yard, […]

Next weekend brings one of the most celebrated holidays for the entire year. If you’re scrambling to figure out what to give your sweetheart for Valentine’s Day this year, the solutions might be no farther away than your local garden center or florist. Although flowers are the obvious choice, gardening gifts are also becoming a […]

With the arrival of Covid-19, many people have turned to online or catalog shopping. Gardeners have been using catalogs and online shopping for a long time as they search for new varieties or a particular plant in a particular size. Catalogs and online are a great option since you have the benefit of being able […]

Vic likes to do it at the garden center for shock value. Pop a poinsettia bract into his mouth and eat it, because we often hear at this time of year, “Oh, your poinsettias are lovely but I can’t have one because they’re poisonous and I have small children/cats/dogs, etc.” I’ve been on a crusade […]

If you recently watched the raising of the Christmas tree in Rockefeller Plaza and thought that it was hardly the vision of the perfect tree, you’re not alone. In it’s defense, I don’t think anyone purposefully choose an ugly tree. Instead I think it was merely one more casualty of the pandemic because not only […]

What a weird, crazy year this has been but if there’s one thing that 2020 has done, it’s been to bring us all home. This refocus on home, family, and community got me thinking about what you can do with garden centered decorations in your home this season to create memories and feel more like […]

The arrival of November and cooler temperatures means we’re into the gardening cleanup season, busily preparing for winter. It also means it’s time to get your yard in shape for the upcoming cold and snow. It’s time to mulch around your trees. This is especially true of trees which you don’t want to have bloom […]

Look closely and you’ll see them on most porches this time of the year. Grinning, smiling, sneering, in expressions of surprise or sorrow, jack o’lanterns have become as much a symbol of October and Halloween as trick or treaters. It’s unclear just when pumpkins began to be carved as a symbol of Halloween. However, an […]