Beat the Maryland Heat with These Summer-Proof Flowers
Summer is knocking on Maryland’s door, and it’s brought some family members, including heat and humidity, along with it. The garden you planted in spring is about to be challenged, and spring flowers usually lose the battle. Limp, wilted, brown flowers don’t look pretty in your landscaping; here are six summer flowers that stand up […]
5 Tips for Caring for Perennials This Winter
One of the reasons we love perennials is that, every spring, they breathe new life into our gardens without any digging or planting. The best way to keep them happy and ready for spring is by taking a little extra care of them when the weather is cold. Here are five tips for caring for […]
How to Maintain Your Perennials in the Fall Season
Your perennials are the true heroes of your garden, coming back year after year for low-maintenance spring beauty. Now that it’s fall, they might be dropping blooms and drooping a bit, but they’re only getting ready for a long winter’s nap. Similar to bears and snakes, your perennial flowers remain alive by becoming dormant throughout […]
How to Care for Perennials in the Summer Months
All winter, you waited. Through the cold, you waited. Through the snow, through the ice, you waited. Then, finally, it happened. Spring! A breath of sun warming your heart and finally getting you to venture outside and into the garden. That garden looked beautiful, too…for about a week. Without warning, Maryland did its seasonal thing […]
When Should You Remove Winter Mulch From Perennials?
In many regions of the country, tucking your perennials in for the long, cold winter requires the spreading of a protective blanket of mulch. Doing this will help your plants resist the temptation to wake up during premature warming periods and put out growth that will only be damaged when cold weather returns. An insulating […]
Late Summer Flower Garden Care
Gardeners are known to pore over seed catalogues and websites during the long winter—planning and plotting their garden’s layout and plantings. In most areas, April and May are the months when we condition the soil, dig, plant, fertilize, and water—with fingers crossed. June is the time of hoping and enjoying, as new growth springs from […]
How to Create a Beautiful 3-Season Garden
Cleaning up your garden area, especially after Maryland’s warm, wet, windy winter, can be a daunting task. Use this 15-point checklist to help pace yourself so you can see progress and stay motivated while you get your flower beds and shrubs cleaned up. Check for Signs of Growth In Maryland, some of the earliest “proof […]
Landscaping Ideas to Help with Storm Water
Here in the mid-Atlantic, when a particularly powerful storm rolls through the area, the landscaping you have worked so hard to create can be at risk. Wind is certainly a concern, but the rain that comes along with such a storm can be just as damaging. If you would like to help your landscape deal […]
Flowers, Trees, Shrubs & More – What to Plant in the Fall
By the time fall rolls around, have you forgotten all about the idea of planting on your property? This seems like a spring activity to most people, so fall planting tends to be ignored. That is a shame. There are plenty of great options for fall planting, meaning you can position your landscape to look […]
How to Prepare Perennials for Winter
The big advantage to planting perennials in your garden is that you will not need to plant them again next year. With the ability to live through the winter weather and come back again next spring, perennial flowers are loved for their durability and consistency. However, you do need to take some steps in order […]
The Difference Between Annuals & Perennials
Flowers can add tremendous appeal to any landscape. Even if you have a relatively ‘boring’ property, you can quickly spruce it up through the addition of just a few beautiful flowers. But which flowers should you add? A trip to the local nursery is likely to provide more questions than answers. You will see many […]
How to Care for Flowers & Plants in Hot Weather
Here in mid-Atlantic areas such as Silver Spring, Frederick, and West Virginia, we all know that it’s a challenge to care for annuals, perennials and other flowers and plants during the hot summer months! While everyone loves to have a beautiful garden all throughout the year, it is not easy to bring your plants through […]