I’m just back from England where I spent two weeks visiting very special friends. It was wonderful to spend quality time together,  bumbling around my favorite villages and towns, hiking in the Yorkshire Dales, swimming in the Solent, and drinking lots of  ‘proper’ tea. While in Yorkshire my friend Jill suggested an outing to RHS ..read more

As we head into the peak spring season and the temperatures continue to rise, more and more of our landscapes are popping with spring color.  Another shrub all gardens should contain is a deciduous Azalea.  Us gardeners have plenty of evergreen options to help with our Azalea and Rhododendron addictions, but a deciduous Azalea specimen offers ..read more

By Nancy Penrose   I have owned Big Trees Inc for 25 years. In that time, one of the most popular types of trees we have provided homeowners are privacy trees. The addition of privacy trees, or hedges, may be the smartest gardening decision you can make. Not only do they fill out an empty […] The post Benefits of Privacy Trees first appeared on Big Tree Supply ..read more

The spring weather may have you thinking about your yard and garden. Maybe you’d like to buy new plants. Are you looking for vegetable starts? Or a shrub to fill in a bare spot? Or perennials to add some color? Plant sales are a wonderful place to buy new garden plants. You can often find […] The post Plant sales are a great place to buy new garden plants appeared first on In Harmony ..read more

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For generations of gardeners, and certainly for me, Rhododendrons represent the arrival of spring in our local landscapes.  Everywhere you drive this time of year there is a stunning Rhododendron in full bloom to catch your eye.  These flowering beauties come in all sorts of ..read more

Tomato season is upon us and, after deciding which tomatoes you’d like to grow, they need to be planted! For this project, we chose a Brandywine heirloom tomato to plant into a container, but the same steps work for planting tomatoes in the ground in a garden bed ..read more

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Peach varieties may be described as “resistant” to peach leaf curl.  But, resistance does not equal immunity, so you may have to deal with this disease no matter which peach variety you purchase ..read more

Going vertical with climbing plants adds visual interest to any garden, providing nice foliage and often ideal seasonal flower power.  There are useful vines out there in all kinds of shapes and sizes; some for larger areas and others to use as smaller garden accents, or even as simple container specimens.  Whether you are trying to grow on a decorative trellis or obelisk, up a post, along a railing, over a large pergola or arbor, or even naturalize something along a fence line, vines may be exactly what you are looking for ..read more