It pains me to see customers spending hundreds of dollars on new plants and simultaneously refusing to spend a few more on a bag or two of compost and a box of starter fertilizer. These two items are not unnecessary “add-ons” that the retailer is just trying to add to the sale, they are critical components of a successful transplanting process - or as I like to refer to them as “plant insurance”. Unless you have phenomenal soil, you should always add compost and starter fertilizers when you are planting new plants. Here is why…
A few weeks back I was lamenting the fact that there were still so many bare spots in my new garden that needed to be filled in, due to plant failures from this last winter… No matter how good of a gardener we might be, some things thrive while others just whimper away into oblivion. Isn’t that the nature of gardening?
The Golfing Gardener
Trevor Cameron
Now that we are in the full swing of autumn, ornamental grasses in our region are starting to strut their stuff. Instead of “bloom” I get to talk “plume” this week, and they are certainly “pluming” at the moment! As I walk my own landscape, the many grasses I have planted over the years make me smile and even though they…