Tips & Tricks for Late Winter Landscaping Maintenance
The groundhog may have predicted six more weeks of winter, but around here, we are thinking Spring! It’s important to remember that your flower beds and landscaping need maintenance in the late winter to ensure they thrive come springtime.
Your Guide to Planting the Daylily
Time to divide: After the plant has been in the ground 4 to 5 years flowering will diminish if they are not divided. Best times are either early spring, when they leaves first emerge or shortly after they have finished blooming.
How to Plant Roses Right
New easy care roses, beautiful, repeat blooming and fragrant – climbers, shrubs and ground covers are the essence of the June garden. Prior 2000, many landscape designers and home owners had stopped planting roses.
How to Add Color to Your Landscape without Additional Maintenance
Green on green landscapes can mean lower maintenance requirements than a garden full of colorful flowering plants. But who wants an all green garden?
Connecticut’s Best Crop! Stones in your garden
Ridgefield, is well named – it is a field of Ridges. With roads tellingly named Ledges, Limestone and Stonecrest. Wilton and Newtown road names also tell us what to expect when we start out to garden, Key Rock Road and Granite Drive should give all gardeners pause.
How to Grow Strawberries in Your Garden
Just last night I picked our first crop of strawberries from the raised beds. The blueberry bushes in the edible garden are almost ready for harvest.
Beautiful Gardens Near Ridgefield, CT to Visit
The best way to improve your garden is to visit other gardens. Expand your gardening horizons with a day trip or a stop while on vacation.
The Three Best Trees to Fill Blank Spots in Your Yard
After hurricanes Irene and Sandy not to mention the ‘arbor-geddon’ of the October snow storm. We found we had great blank spots in the gardens of Newtown, Ridgefield, Wilton and many other Connecticut towns.
How to Plan a New Landscape Garden
As Old Man Winter loosens his grip and the snow begins to melt away, we draw our attention to the landscapes that enhance our homes and lives, and increase our property values. If you are creating a new garden or just renovating an existing garden, understand that planning is a crucial part of the process.
Natural Awakenings Interviews Growing Solutions
Growing Solutions, LLC is a full service landscape company servicing Fairfield County since 2002. It is co-owned by Paul Fujitani and Chris Baliko. We began questioning some of the conventional practices and uses of chemicals in the landscape.