FROM THE ARCHIVES: PAINT WITH MOSS // Adding a quick touch of green to most surfaces is child’s play.
FROM THE ARCHIVES: ROSE PREP
It’s time to prune your roses! The following is by no means an exhaustive how-to. But ample for ensuring a healthy start to the rose season. Refer to this article throughout the summer when maintenance pruning will encourage new growth and bloom, remove dead wood, improve air circulation and provide a pleasing plant shape. Maintenance pruning should not be done past August.
FROM THE ARCHIVES: WILD GREENS N’ FIDDLEHEADS
The weeds of spring are delicate and delicious...just call them wild greens...and good for you, too! A rich source of Vitamins A and C. A blog entry from The Grist with recipes for what you might otherwise curse. We had a call yesterday, asking for fiddlehead ferns. Fiddleheads are not a variety of fern...they are the tender, young, unfurled fronds ...
FROM THE ARCHIVES: WEARING WINTER WHITE
Today’s snow was of the large-flaked, fluffy type. Just beautiful. The first such snow we’ve had this year. The way the snow collects on trees and shrubs and what remains of summer plants reminds us of the four-season beauty of the landscape.