A Perennial Task
The days and nights are getting colder, the leaves starting to change to more brilliant shades of red and gold. It's time to start cutting back the gardens and preparing…
Plant Profile: Magnificent Mums
Nothing says "fall" like chrysanthemums. Mums are the most widely grown potted plant in the country, and one of the longest lasting cut flowers, and the enormous range of colors…
Fall is For Planting!
Cooler weather has arrived, the trees are starting to change, and the kids have gone back to school. No matter what the calendar says, it's fall, folks. It's time to…
Plant Profile: Hardy Hibiscus – Bringing the Tropics to Maine
Some of the most stunning plants in the late summer garden are the Hardy Hibiscus. Whether perennial or shrub, they bust forth with a plethora of tropical-looking blossoms in August…
Beat the Summer Heat!
Summer is finally here, and seems to be making up for lost time by jacking temperatures up higher than we've seen in a good long while. Our plants aren't any…
Heavenly Hydrangeas
Ah, Hydrangea. A flower that brings to mind old lace and lazy summer evenings. A welcome sight when many of the other shrubs in the landscape have finished blooming. They…
Plant Profile: Daylilies
The Daylily Days of summer have arrived! Bright color is a little bit later than usual, thanks to our odd spring, but that just means we get to enjoy it…
The Summer Garden
The pale pinks, blues, and soft yellows of spring have given way to bold reds, oranges and golds as the weather and the garden finally heat up this year. Everything…
Pest Profile: Japanese Beetles
Every July they visit. Thousands upon thousands of them. Hungry invaders that will stop at nothing to make sure any joy we get out of our summer gardens is destroyed…
Plant Profile: Roses
Rose is a rose is a rose. Every rose has it's thorn. Do not think that roses are cursed with thorns, but that a thorn bush is fortunate enough to…