Learn Which Plants Grow Where
After I lost a bunch of good plants, I started focusing on trying less expensive species plants (instead of cultivars) in the tougher spots and doing my best to propagate plants that were doing well …
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Limit Colors and Increase What You Have.
Gave away the prolific gold and orange daylilies to limit my color scheme to blues and pinks. Gradually dug out forsythia that grew from suckers into huge tangles. I like the yellow blooms, and the p…
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Converted Vegetable Garden to Raised Beds with Great Soil
Still fixing - green manure over winter, neighbor's horse ****, although I'm "basically" organic, I use petro-fertilizer (long acting, lower acid, ...) to pump up production of the green manure crop …
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No Prima Donas and No Garden Thugs
I started editing. I realized that I couldn’t let everything that seeded itself grow and I couldn’t buy every plant I saw. I still try new plants every year, but I give away the plants th…
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