Book Review: How to Start a Home-Based Landscape Business
Karen If you have ever considered starting your own landscape business Owen E. Dell’s book, How to Start a Home-Based Landscape Business, is a good place to start. Read it through…
Giving Thanks the German Way: Erntedankfest
Thanksgiving Day in Canada or the United States is a popular holiday but we are not the only countries to give thanks for good harvests in the fall. Germany has…
Plant Profile: Rose: ‘The Pilgrim’
For a huge production of flowers you can’t go wrong with ‘The Pilgrim’! When in bloom the bush is covered with large, flat to cup-shaped flowers produced singly or in…
Birds in the Garden: Plants That Attract Tyrant Flycatcher Family (Tyrannidae)
Tyrant flycatchers belong the the family Tyrannidae, the largest of all bird families, and are found through out North and South America. The family includes pewees, phoees, and kingbirds as…
Sweet Potatoes for Thanksgiving: Try Something New
You don’t recommend sweet potatoes for Thanksgiving, right? Many American families all over the United States, but especially in the South, have a sweet potato side on the holiday table,…
Book Review: About Hummingbirds
Humingbirds are always welcome in the garden and many of us grow plants just to attract them. Cathryn Sill’s book, About Hummingbirds, is a very nice way to introduce young…
Birds in the Garden: Plants That Attract Crow and Jay Family (Corvidae)
Corvids, as members of the family are called include ravens, magpies, and nutcrackers as well as crows and jays. They are large, highly intelligent, unafraid of humans, and have stout…
Plant Profile: Silver Spike Grass (Achnatherum calamagrostis)
This cool weather grass is a native of the mountains of southern Europe where it is found in forest openings. In addition to cool temperatures it likes low humidity. It…
How to Care for Bonsai: Olive (Olea europaea)
This evergreen tree or shrub is native to the Asia,, Africa, and the Mediterranean. It is known in literature from Homer’s time, is important in Greek mythology, and is one…
Plant Profile: California Nutmeg (Torreya californica)
Indemic to forested areas of California, California nutmeg is not related to the spice nutmeg, Myristica fragrans. It is similar, however, to some of the plum yews and podocarps in…