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Gardeners across the country contributed their green gardening tips to celebrate Earth Day’s 40th Anniversary. Many thanks to all the gardeners who shared their green gardening tips on Earth Day–each of you deserves a bouquet of spring flowers from my garden for taking time to post your suggestions for how to grow greener. According to this gardening [...]

Pruning shrubs is an essential skill for gardeners, get expert tips and advice on plants, yards, and gardening in this free video. Expert: Carolyn Holt Bio: Carolyn Holt owns her own landscaping business, Carolyn’s Gardens, and has been a professional landscaper for over 30 years. She also has a degree in horticulture.

A whole lotta garden-coaching is going on over on the garden-center blog I write for. First up, I show off my favorite and most-recommended shrubs for turning a yard into a garden with big, showy ones, most of them fast-growing.  Cheap, too.  Like the Weigela above – ‘White Knight’ on the left, common pink on the [...]

Why Use a Soil Test Kit? Helps gardeners grow greener lawns and more abundant flowers, fruits, and vegetables. Testing the levels of pH, nitrogen, phosphorus, and potash takes just 3 easy steps: 1) mix soil with water, pour off liquid after soil settles into the chambers of the color compactor, 2) dissolve tablet, and 3) compare [...]

More online coaching going on, this time about all the renewal pruning everybody should be doing on their shrubs.  I’m talking cherry laurels, azaleas, spireas, forsythia, viburnum, weigela, and lots more.   Renewal pruning may be counter-intuitive, but it really works to improve the look and health of shrubs, and is fun to do. Pruning is hard [...]

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