Focus on Cardinal flowers to attract hummingbirds
If you plant only one flower, make it a Cardinal flower and enjoy the added benefit of hummingbirds. This native North American wildflower is s much at home in the Woodland garden as it is growing alongside a river.
Solomon’s seal is solid choice for the woodland or shade garden
Solomon’s seal’s arching branches reveal the dangling cream flowers that highlight the spring woodland garden.
What’s the best camera and lens for Garden photography?
What’s the best camera and lens for garden photography? The real question you need to ask is: what type of garden photography do I enjoy. A high-end point and shoot camera with a moderate wide angle and telephoto lens that has macro capability is a great choice.
Tips to photograph wildlife in your woodland garden
Creating the right environment to be successful in the garden involves a lot of hard work. But, in the end, it pays off. It’s not luck that you saw an oriole, a fox or hummingbird in your garden. It’s the result of that hard work you put in earlier to create the right conditions.
Perfect grass: Waste of time or ideal backdrop?
So you’ve got a perfect lawn. That don’t impress me much. In fact, the perfect lawn is becoming a thing of the past for anyone who cares about the environment. It’s time to explore a more naturalized landscape that is becoming popular as more gardeners realize the environmental impact of traditional lawns.
When is the best time to move a plant, shrub or tree?
What’s the best time to move that tree, shrub or plant? Moving plants is always a little scary but if done well, it can be done successfully. here are some tips to make sure the move comes off without a hitch.
How to grow sunflowers
Looking to grow sunflowers this season? Here is a guide to growing them in your landscape as well as in containers, including growing tips on the massive, single-flowered variety as well as the smaller, multi-flowered varieties.
Canada Anemone: A native ground cover for woodland garden
Canada Anemone is native ground cover that is ideal for the woodland garden that enjoys a little sun and would benefit from a fast-spreading ground cover with a lovely flower.
Epimediums: Woodland plant whose time has come
Epimediums are quietly making a name for themselves among gardeners looking for a delicate woodland foliage plant with beautiful spring flowers.
Cooking with cast iron on the BBQ
Cooking with cast iron has to be one of the most rewarding and exciting ways to prepare meals outdoors in the garden, whether it’s on the open fire or in the BBQ.
Celebrate No Mow May along with the butterflies, birds and bees
The No Mow movement is sweeping the world after getting its start in Britain. It is now being picked up by environmental groups, cities and towns and individual homeowners looking to do their part to help native flowers and fauna.
Tips to create a mini meadow-inspired garden
Creating a mini meadow garden in a sunny area of your yard is an excellent way to attract a variety of pollinators from bees to butterflies and everything in between.
How to attract Giant Tiger Swallowtail to your garden
The Giant Yellow Tiger Swallowtail is one of the largest butterflies in the United States and Canada. This “generalist” woodland butterfly is able to survive on a number of host plants in the wild and in our gardens. It is certainly among the most beautiful butterflies in our gardens.
Three Ornamental grasses for the shade or woodland garden
Grasses for shade gardening are not always easy to find. Most grasses want full or at least part sun to be their best, but here are three that perform their best in shade.
The Hidden Kingdom of Fungi opens a secret world into our forests and homes
The Hidden World of Fungi is a book for those who want to dig deep into the fascinating world of fungi in the forests, in our homes, industry and even our bodies.
Proven Winners 2022 Gardener’s Idea Book is another winner
Proven Winners has done it again with their free 2022 Garden Ideas booklet and download. The 42-page booklet is full of great garden tips and ideas to help you get the most out of your garden this year.
Cornus Kousa: Outstanding tree and why you need to reconsider planting it
The Cornus Kousa is a spectacular accent or understory tree for the woodland garden. Although it is a spectacular tree in full bloom, it is native to China.
Flowering Dogwood: The queen of the Woodland garden
The flowering dogwood is an icon of the American landscape with its spectacular spring flowers followed by red berries that birds cannot get enough of as they ripen.
Cornelian Cherry: Elegant addition to woodland garden
Cornus Mas is the perfect replacement for the overly common Forsythia. It’s early spring yellow blooms flower at about the same time as Forsythia but the small tree offers much more architectural elegance in the landscape than the straggly-look of the Forsythia.
Pagoda Dogwood: Shade-loving native tree for woodland, wildlife
The Pagoda Dogwood or Cornus Alternifolia is a small native tree or shrub that is perfect for a woodland garden and vital to native wildlife, including birds, caterpillars, insects and mammals. It’s also an elegant, multi-layered tree with a beautiful horizontal habit that works as well in a woodland garden as it does in a Japanese inspired garden.