Garden Center vs Big Box Store Landscaping. A few weeks ago, when the weather started to finally warm up, one of my garden design clients […]

Spring 2017 Color in My Garden. I can’t believe it’s already May! We were very lucky to have a fairly “light” winter this past season. […]

Low Maintenance Gardens. On this First Day of Spring, I’m reflecting on my gardening past. Recently, I was provided with the challenging opportunity to redesign […]

Autumn 2016 Color. This year’s autumn season in Northern Virginia has been very colorful with gorgeous cool weather. We had a bit of a drought […]

Raised Bed Garden. It was last year that we endured Slug City even on our raised wooden decks. It rained and rained all Spring and […]

Spring had been very slow to arrive here in Virginia this year and now today is the Summer Solstice. We were all waiting patiently for […]

Hello and Happy New Year! 2015 was a very busy gardening year for me as evidenced by fewer 2015 garden postings here at A Gardener’s […]

Do Unto Other Gardeners As You Would Have Them Do Unto You. Gardening can be such a delight. Yet having just one uninformed hapless neighbor […]

Autumn is upon us. It’s time for Fall Yard Cleanup in the garden! The leaves are falling, perennials are fizzling out, ornamental grasses are at […]