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(This is the 10th in a series of blog posts about the English Gardens Tour I led from May 16-27, 2018. Remember that you can click on any of the photos in order to view a larger image.) On the morning of May 24, 2018, I awoke with a big smile on my face. Today we would be going to […]
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If you’re looking for a way to maximize the space in your vegetable and beds, vertical gardening is just what you’re looking for! That’s the topic of my column this week. Here’s a link to it in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: Expand your garden by growing up. Many of you are probably familiar with my “famous” pole bean arbor, […]
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If you overwintered your geraniums using my method of knocking the soil off the roots and storing them in a bag or box, it’s time to pot them up again. I don’t know about you, but I find that exciting because it means spring really is coming! I just potted up mine and had fairly good results from the overwintering […]
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Well, here we are in the dead of winter and I’m talking about how to propagate geraniums by taking cuttings. Why now? Well, the cuttings I took of my ivy geraniums last fall have been doing so well, I decided it was an important skill to share with you. The take-home message from my latest video is simple: Don’t be afraid […]
Read moreI think you would probably agree that this is an exciting time of year. Sure, it’s cold outside — maybe even snowing — but the seed catalogs have been arriving for weeks and we gardeners are happily planning to have our best garden ever! Am I right? Well, during the month of December, I had an extra treat: as a […]
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For the past few years, I have been shooting gardening how-to videos because I want to make gardening accessible to everyone. I first learned how to create my own videos at a “Video Storytelling” conference I attended in Victoria, B.C. I use a video camera and the iMovie app on my iPad to put everything together. So far, I’ve shot […]
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In late September, I wrote about overwintering zonal geraniums. It is so simple to do and is a great way to save money. Last year, I wasn’t successful at getting my ivy geraniums to overwinter so took some geranium cuttings as a “Plan B” for this year. What happened last year was that my ivy geraniums were huge plants by […]
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I’ve been meaning to dig up my canna lilies for the past couple of weeks but have been awfully busy lately. However, once I saw our rather startling weather forecast for the next several days (which includes temperatures in the teens along with the “S” word), I went right outside and got the job done! A couple of years ago, […]
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When I shot the video below about how to overwinter geraniums, I had no idea how popular it would become! In the two years since it was filmed, almost 87,000 people have viewed it. Isn’t that crazy? But it underscores the interest in this topic. After all, most of us gardeners buy geraniums for planters or flower beds and hate […]
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Do you enjoy seeing birds in your garden year-round? If so, there is something really important for you to keep in mind as you tackle your fall clean-up chores: save flower heads for the birds! If you’re like me, you probably really like having a very tidy yard going into the fall and winter seasons. But I learned something really […]
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