Whatever your planting style, deciding what to put in winter containers means you need to get creative with your choices. Your efforts will be totally on show as there's usually so little competition ...
Dress up your porch or patio with gorgeous evergreen shrubs perfect for winter containers. The key to fabulous winter containers is evergreen foliage, but evergreen doesn't have to mean just green.
A shrub or a perennial growing in a container can look elegant and require little maintenance all spring, summer and fall. When winter hits, though, gardeners might suspect that their fair-weather ...
Raise your pots off the ground to help them survive winter. Elevating pots just an inch or two lets water drain better, which ...
Even if you have an in-ground garden, you should grow some plants in pots 🪴 ...
Plants can brighten up the space in a jiffy (Picture Credit: Pexels) Winter can be a dull and dry season, stripping your home of the joy and colour it deserves. However, there are ways to brighten up ...
Each summer I fill a big window box with annual flowers and vines to welcome all who approach the house. Some years it is bodacious, other years it verges on ho-hum. This year it is a delight: in the ...
You can always tell a diehard gardener. When the first frost of fall is forecast, they’re outside in the dark with a flashlight, covering tomato plants with old bed ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As the days grow shorter and temperatures begin to dip, it’s time for gardeners in Marin County to prepare for winter. Proper winterization of your garden ...