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    All About Pruning: Webinar, Podcasts, Videos and Stories It's February and time to get in the yard and start pruning. Pruning is one of those chores that intimidates many gardeners. Often gardeners are afraid to prune for fear of killing or hurting their plant. But with a little science know how and some creativity, you can prune easily and effectively keep your plants in bounds, flowering and looking beautiful. In this newsletter I highlight my Pruning Trees and Shrubs Webinar where I talk, in depth, about pruning various...

All About Houseplants: Webinar and Stories January is a great time to up your houseplant game. Greenhouses have new shipments of beautiful houseplants and you have time to repot, evaluate and fix your existing plants. I'm here to help! In this newsletter I highlight my Webinar, All About Houseplants, where I talk in depth about light, watering, fertilizing, humidity and pest control of your plants. I also offer lots of houseplant ideas for your home. Check it out below. I also provided links to articles on my website about houseplants. The...

Organic Pest Controls: Webinar, Video and Stories   July is when all those critters start catching up to me. I've been good about squishing squash bugs eggs, hand picking Japanese beetles and covering my Brussels sprouts and broccoli plants from the Swede midge and cabbage worms. But no matter how hard we try in our garden, pests still happen. So, I thought it's a good time to take a look at some pest controls you can do now to lessen the damage. These include for insect pests and diseases. I have many profiles of various pests on my...

  Lilacs and Hydrangeas: Webinar, Videos and Stories     June is a great month in our zone 5 garden. The lilacs, peonies and rhododendrons are finishing their bloom cycle and other perennials and shrubs, such as hydrangeas, are getting ready to put on a summer show. I was thinking about how popular lilacs and hydrangeas are for most gardeners, so I thought to dedicate a newsletter to both of them. Now is the time to prune your lilacs before they set flower buds for next spring. I talk about how to do that and how to do a...

    Container Gardening: Webinar, Video and Stories     May is the gardening month in many parts of the country, but for those with little space to garden the options are limited. Luckily, there is Container Gardening. With new types of pots, dwarf varieties, flowers that bloom all season without deadheading and even trees and shrubs that fit in pots, you can grow almost anything in a container. This newsletter is dedicated to those container gardeners out there who are looking for new ideas for containers, different...

  Fall Gardening & Plant Protection: Webinar, Podcasts, and Articles      It's stick season our new neck of the woods. That means the deciduous leaves and needles have dropped, but the snows have yet to show up. I was going to send this newsletter out next week, but the weather is shifting quickly to cold and snow in the North, so I thought it would be more timely to send this newsletter now. November is all about planting the last of your spring flowering bulbs and garlic, protecting a variety of tender plants from...