Our interview with gardener Lady Xa Tollemache of Helmingham Hall in Suffolk, UK. For flower lovers, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation’s 76th annual Garden Symposium, “Digging the Garden: Horticulture, History & Archaeology,” takes place on April 27-30. The event is both in-person and online and will feature presentations by horticulturists (Daria McKelvey), historians (Mark […]
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Searching to get an early commence on the spring growing period? The Sedgwick County 4-H Extension Workplace can enable as it is planning to host the 2023 Design and style and Improve Gardening Workshop on March 4. Workshop actions will be held at the Sedgwick County Extension Training Heart 4-H […]
A short while ago, I hosted two extended-time mates from Oklahoma City, both of whom are avid gardeners. Just one, John Fluitt, is a landscape architect with an extraordinary client checklist. The other, Terry Zinn, travels the earth and loves to take a look at gardens. John developed the yard […]
David Austin Roses were being designed in England to have the fragrance and vigor of an outdated-fashioned rose with the repeat blooming pattern of a present day hybrid tea. Courtesy of David Austin Roses If your New Year’s resolution is to “Keep Growing” in any way other than broader, then […]
The perfect garden design starts with you. It is based on personal likes and dislikes. It can be whimsical, abstract, geometrical, practical, vibrant or soothing or a combination of elements. What matters is that you are drawn into your surroundings with a peace in your soul. A garden should be […]
The founder of a gardening school in Norfolk says she hopes that a new course will help to train up the region’s next generation of garden designers. Norfolk and Suffolk are home to some of the country’s most beautiful gardens, from shady city courtyards to landscaped grounds and everything in between […]
As we grow older, the inevitability of age catches up with us, and our bodies simply can’t do what they once did. Forget about running a marathon—though some beat the odds and do it—and forget about bench pressing 300 pounds. At some point, it becomes notably challenging to bend over […]
This more symbiotic form of relationship — responding to and working with nature, rather than controlling or exploiting it — is what we need to shift to collectively. So it becomes less about simply taking what we want from the garden, and more about a way of gardening that is […]
We are well into bare root rose season, which began in January and continues to May. This is a good time to add roses to the landscape: mail order nurseries and garden centers offer lots of rose varieties at the year’s best prices, and gardeners can plant bare-root roses now […]
