American Thanksgiving brings thankfulness to the mind This is the month that Americans celebrate Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday. Has your garden made you happy or joyful this year? Learn what I am thankful for and then compile your own list. Please let me know what you are thankful …
You Are Not Alone in Your Garden
A catbird watching me as I garden in the Herb Garden – waiting to eat the raspberries nearby. "No One Can Garden Alone"Quote by Elizabeth Lawrence There is a lovely gardening quote by one of my gardening heroines, Elizabeth Lawrence. She says in the preface of ‘The Little Bulbs’ – "No one can …
Hot Colors are Here
Yay! Bright Pink Bright pink garden accessories at the Chelsea Flower Show If you have read this email a few times you will probably have seen that I like bright pink. The good news is that the world is catching up with me. I am happy to report that pink is everywhere. It makes me so happy. …
The Scoop on Summer Staking
Summer staking keeps the garden looking fresh for the rest of the gardening year. There is a nice way to do it and a sloppy way. Learn what you can do to make your garden sail through summer and into fall. Pink pompon dahlia flowers in the Cutting Garden at Northview look great when paired with …
Highlights from the Chelsea Flower Show 2023
Jenny Rose Carey at the entrance to The Chelsea Flower Show, London, England 2023 The Chelsea Flower this year was held as usual at the Royal Hospital Grounds in Chelsea, London, England. The site is a magnificent one on the banks of the River Thames. Every year when I prepare for my Chelsea …
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The Chelsea Flower Show – A Spring Tradition in London – 2015 – 2017 (More in next blogs)
The Chelsea Flower Show held annually in London’s Royal Hospital Grounds in Chelsea has gardens and displays to delight the senses and inspire your gardening. This Trug Master’s display from 2015 was one of my favorites that year. The Chelsea Flower Show is held annually in May at the Royal …
Magenta Maligned – Flower Color in the Garden
Colour in My Garden by Louise Beebe Wilder is an illustrated garden book from the early 1900’s Gardening Quote ‘MAGENTA THE MALIGNED … I am very fond of this colour as worn by flowers and have taken some trouble to bring it into harmony with its surroundings.’ (Page 223) Louise Beebe …
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Sowing the Seeds of a Flowery Garden
Choosing which seeds to sow Seed sowing is one of the ultimate gardening pleasures. Tucking tiny brownish bundles of potential beauty beneath your potting soil is a lesson in hope and expectation. My Head Gardener, here at Northview Garden, Hanna von Schlegell, and I spend a lot of time …
Snowdrops and Galanthomania
An Enchanting Winter Flower – Snowdrop – Galanthus Gardening Quote for February Snowdrops – ‘The more species and varieties you grow, the more you come to appreciate their finer details and differences, whereas those who are strangers to the subject think that all …
Enliven your Fall Garden with Dahlias
With tips for digging up the tubers and storing them for winter Gardening Quote: ‘If the iris is considered the flower of the rainbow, surely the dahlia might be called the flower of the sunset.’ Louise Bush-Brown, Flowers for Every Garden, Little, Brown, and Company, 1927. Dahlias …
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