Jenny Rose Carey
Dazzling Plants, Design Ideas, and Proven Techniques for Your Shady Garden
By Jenny Rose Carey A guide to managing your fallen autumn leaves ‘Autumn is not the sad time it is supposed to be. Darkness falls at five o’clock, and the garden is cold and wet, but it is a season of planning and expectation… Even the fallen leaf is food for future years …
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Gardening Quote "Let's accept random seeding, let's tolerate small flowers like grace-notes decorating the paving. Not always, but sometimes." Dear Gardening Friends, One of the reasons that I am always drawn to old gardens is that they have a gentle, relaxed, lived-in look. Plants have …
Gardeners have been debating what is meant by the term ‘wild garden’ ever since William Robinson published his influential book titled The Wild Garden in 1870. Maybe gardeners were pondering it before then but Robinson’s book opened the floodgates of dissent. The opposing faction was led …
NEW BOOK I am excited to announce the release of my next book for Timber Press - The Ultimate Flower Gardener's Guide. Coming out on July 5th 2022, the book contains over 600 photographs - most of them I took myself to illustrate the flowers and design ideas outlined in the book. The book …
By Jenny Rose Carey Horticultural Heroines for the last day of Women's History Month I woke up this morning thinking about some of the horticultural women who inspire me. It is the last day of Women's History month and I want to share with you one of my personal horticultural …
As the days lengthen and the temperatures increase the pace of spring growth increases. Buds open. Shoots emerge and elongate. The pace of change is dizzying. Capture these fleeting moments in photographs to enjoy year round. Photos above: Leucojum vernum - Spring snowflake - dangling white and …
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The star-like white flowers of Magnolia stellata, the star Magnolia (shown above), are some of the first Magnolias to bloom in the spring. The strappy tepals (sepals and petals) explode from tightly packed, fuzzy buds when a few warm days spur new spring growth. Magnolia x loebneri' Leonard …
The Hamamelis season is in full swing here at Northview. Many of the witch hazel flowers are out earlier this year as the weather has been mild this winter, although combined with one of the heaviest snowfalls recorded in Philadelphia. I have been thinking about witch hazels for the last few weeks. …
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The snow has melted this week but the weather is still cold. The garden is bleak, brown and muddy. Witch hazels are the only woody plants that are providing some welcome splashes of color. Gardening here in Pennsylvania where the timing of spring bloom is so variable from year to year, it is …
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Today is the first day of spring but you would not know it as we had a late season storm yesterday that brought another few inches of snow. It was beautiful outside today with morning temperatures hovering around 32 degrees fahrenheit and the snow crisp and crusty on the surface. The sun came up and …
Continue Reading about Snowy garden on March 21st! Wasn’t I meant to be planting peas?
