Month: January 2019

WHAT PLANT TAGS ACTUALLY MEAN

Easy-Growing Gardening Blog / gardening / gardening tips / General silliness / horticulture

Plant tags make all kinds of crazy claims. But do you know what the truth is? The problem with plant tags is that the people who write them up are not allowed to tell the unvarnished truth about the plant, even if the plant is a real dog. If they do speak, highly suspicious things happen to them.

I was able to wrest a few secrets out of one such writer before she met her doom in a freak rose accident. Here’s a primer on what the plant tag says … and what it actually means.

Garden Design … And Creativity (Spoiler: You already have it)

Easy-Growing Gardening Blog / gardening / gardening tips / horticulture

When I was reading my usual pile of articles and books while researching this topic, I read about some pretentious garden writer who said, of gardens, that a real work of art is not something that could be copied or analyzed. Let me tell you all the ways this is pure bull.

Planning the Vegetable Garden

Easy-Growing Gardening Blog / gardening / gardening tips / horticulture

It’s excitement time when you grab your stacks of seed catalogs and your pencils and your big sheets of paper (or, for those of you who are savvy enough to be reading this book on a Kindle or Nook, your tablet with a landscaping app). Planning the vegetable garden is when you take all those bright ideas dancing in your head and try to put them on paper (or on a screen).

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