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Before and After: What to do with a teeny tiny space
Very small Charlestown yard where increased beauty was desired without sacrificing lawn space. Before: After: Azaleas transplanted to the shady corner (not pictured) and the strip planted with low maintenance long blooming perennials that will fill the space in.
Using what you’ve got
Here’s a in-progress view of a project from last fall. I wanted to get the new shrubs in as early as possible, and was able to do so by creating the edge and preparing the rest of the bed after the trees and shrubs were all nice and cozy in…
Best Bees! A great way to get yourself acquainted with beekeeping and GREAT for your garden!
Last fall I had the pleasure of meeting Noah Wilson-Rich of the Boston based company Best Bees. Best Bees offers delivery, installation (with live, healthy bees), and full seasonal management of honey bee hives across eastern Massachusetts. They check in with all hives regularly and as needed to prevent swarming…
How to Protect your Shrubs from Snow Damage
A blanket of snow actually PROTECTS your plants in the winter! It’s the drying winds and freezes/thaws that can damage less hardy perennial plants. Snowfall CAN damage certain evergreen shrubs and trees by weighing them down and causing breaks or splitting. You’ve probably seen an arborvitae (or other vertical branching…
White Snakeroot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ageratina_altissima A wonderful New England native wildflower blooms late summer into fall. This photo taken September 25. I didn’t recognize this plant early in the season when it was growing en-masse on the other side of a property I was working at, but I’m very glad I just let it…
Witch Hazels set Autumn Afire!
Reminds me of the Duraflame color flame logs What a magnificent display!
Stone work
I’m very happy with this landing, it’s beautiful and attentive to the space it occupies. You can see I’ve finished the path that goes off to the left, but at this point hadn’t started to set the path straight ahead. This garden was barren compacted clay soil when I first…
