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  • Welcoming Entries with a ‘Weeping Habit’

    What welcoming plants can you select to make your front entrance more inviting? Try a plant with a weeping habit! These plants will create a spectacular welcome for friends or family as they arrive at your front door. The ‘Sweetspire’ is a naturally weeping plant that produces finger-like panicles of...
    Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 11-19-2009

  • How to Make a Shade Garden Look Great

    When planning a shade garden, you need to focus not only on color, but think of texture as well. Remember that foliage can be just as colorful as flowers and last longer too. There are so many shades of green, such as variegated with white or silver that reflects light and gives the garden a feeling...
    Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 10-03-2009

  • Balsam Fir information

    Balsam Fir is a medium-sized evergreen tree generally reaching 40-60 feet in height and 1-1 1/2 feet in diameter. It exhibits a relatively dense, dark-green, pyramidal crown with a slender spire-like tip. Balsam fir has both male and female flowers on the same tree. Flowers are receptive in late May...
    Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 09-09-2009

  • Soil quality for Healthy Oak Trees

    Healthy oak trees are grown in good soils, in fact, the most important factor in growing oak trees is good soil. The type of soil determines the nutrients availability and the water holding capacity that the tree has access to. Good soils can determine how much stress the oak tree can successfully withstand...
    Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 09-01-2009

  • Plants for Windy Areas

    Where high winds prevail, tender plants may have a difficult time getting established. Helping them become established may be as simple as supplying sturdy trees and shrubs that will help create a wind-resistant, protected area. Shrubs such as Arrowwood viburnum seem to hold its own in windy, inclement...
    Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 07-13-2009

  • Boxwoods in Pots

    Boxwoods are utilized in several ways in the landscape. They are used in borders, as shorter hedging plants, as a single specimin plant, and in containers. Putting boxwoods in pots is a great way to stylize a garden path, a porch, a front entry, or to create a focal point. Boxwoods are like living sculptures...
    Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 07-10-2009
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