Gardening expert, Melinda Myers from Pasquesi Home and Gardens, offers pruning tips to help you keep shrubs and small trees beautiful and healthy throughout the year.
What Should I Plant Near My Pool?
Having a backyard pool is about more than cooling off. It’s about creating a relaxing oasis that makes your home and yard more inviting.
10 Easy Foundation Plants for the Front of Your House
Some people have plenty of time to tinker around in their garden until their heart’s content, but if that doesn’t describe you, you are going to find this list super handy.
12 Underutilized Landscape Plants
Many gardeners, including me, love to have flower beds bursting with color all season long. As you might guess, there are thousands of annuals, perennials, and shrubs available to plant in your garden.
The Best Flowering Trees for Small Spaces
Each spring, we look forward to the sight of trees loaded with delicate blossoms. There’s a reason people travel from all over the world for cherry blossom, or sakura, season in Japan.
Selecting Plants for a Pollinator Garden
Butterflies, birds, bees, bats, and beetles are pollinators. They transfer pollen to fertilize plants.
How Fruiting Plants and Birds Support Each Other
Native plants produce the right fruit at the right time to nurture the native bird population. In turn, the birds eat the fruit and distribute the seeds, helping to ensure the plant’s survival.
Boxwood Looking Battered?
Based on the mind-blowing number of boxwood samples that arrive daily at our Wilmette store and are being seen by our landscape team, there’s a big, post-winter problem. The damage is largely attributable to two things- an insect (Boxwood leafminer) and record-breaking low winter temperatures.
Don’t grow distant from your garden!
Free time on your hands? Avoiding social spaces, but need some time outside? Consider a few gardening tasks that can be accomplished in the next couple of weeks!
Caring for your Spring Bulbs
Fertilize your spring flowering bulbs with a slower-releasing granular of one to two pounds of 10-10-10 per 100 square feet when shoots first appear in spring and ideally four to six weeks before bloom.