How to Use Burgundy Flowers and Foliage
Burgundy is a valuable color to have in your garden design tool kit. It's both potent and sophisticated. From garnet to merlot, maroon to mahogany, these...
flower gardens
Welcome Spring With Trilliums
Trilliums are a beloved North American wildflower. In the spring, you can find them blooming in woodlands and hedgerows throughout most of the...
Expert Tips for Cutting and Arranging Spring Flowers
It’s always such a long wait for spring’s first flowers. When they finally burst on the scene, the bounty of blooms combined with months of pent up...
How to Design a Backyard Cutting Garden
If you love making fresh flower arrangements, planting a cutting garden is the best way to ensure you will always have lots of beautiful, homegrown...
How to Use Orange in Your Flower Garden
Orange is a color that's not always easy to love -- especially in a flower garden. It has a big personality and doesn't seem motivated to blend in....
How a Floral Designer Chooses Flowers for Her Cutting Garden
Floral Designer Alicia Schwede After many years running a successful floral design studio, Alicia Schwede decided to take her business in a...
How to Use Pink in Your Flower Garden
Gardeners often have a strong opinion about the color pink. In truth, it can be challenging to work with. Read on to learn why that’s true, and get some...
A Midsummer Tour of Our Trial Garden
August is just a couple days away, and in our New Jersey trial garden the heat is definitely ON! We are located in the eastern part of the state...
Midsummer Maintenance Tips for Perennial Gardens
Part of what makes public gardens like Sissinghurst, Kew or Longwood so impressive, is how well the plants are tended during the growing season....