You can spend hours building a beautiful bird bath, place it in the perfect flower bed, and never see a single feather splash in it. I've watched this happen countless times. The bird bath wasn't the problem. Its location and…
Protective flowers have been part of gardening traditions for centuries. Think European doorstep herbs, Latin American home altars, and the little pot of rosemary your grandmother kept on her porch. This isn't about being superstitious. It's about creating a home…
When you have a witchy garden you're about to make your neighbors both curious and slightly nervous, which is exactly the vibe you're going for. I've been gardening for 15 years, and somewhere around year three I started leaning into…
So, you want a witchy garden? Good. This is one of my favorite things to help people plan, because it's the rare garden project where the plants have to work just as hard emotionally as they do physically. Here's the…
I've been gardening for 15 years, and somewhere around year eight, a client asked me to make her backyard "feel like a witch lived there." I laughed. Then I spent the next three years figuring out what that phrase means,…
So you bought a gorgeous trellis, stuck it in the ground, planted your clematis or your sweet peas, and now you're standing in your yard wondering why nothing is climbing. Sound familiar? You're not doing anything wrong. You just weren't…
If you have ever bought a trellis, stuck it in the ground, and then watched your plant completely ignore it, you are not alone. I have done this. I put a gorgeous cedar trellis behind my cucumbers one spring, felt…
I have watched a trellis fall over at 7am with a full grown clematis on it. My neighbor screamed. I ran outside in my pajamas thinking a tree fell. It was just a trellis nobody bothered to check since spring…
You bought the trellis. It's leaning against your fence looking hopeful and empty. And you're standing there wondering why nothing is climbing it yet. I've been gardening for 15 years, and I promise you this: the trellis isn't the problem…
So you don't want to buy a trellis. Maybe it's the price tag. Maybe your garden style doesn't call for one more piece of wood leaning against the fence. Or maybe, like me, you bought a trellis once, watched it…