A Landscape Gardeners Thoughts Regarding Native vs. Non-Native
As a landscape gardener, I feel the need to ‘simplify’ the native vs non-native plants topic. It arises in many conversations among...
While your garden is sleeping.......
sketch by Hanna Carter It is the perfect time to raise the bed. Do you need more space to plant those vegies? What look are you going...
Happy New Year!
MAKING IT HAPPEN IN 2023 New Year Resolutions are a mere mindset in the garden of life. How do you achieve your goal? And why would...
Don't Do This to Your Trees!
Why? For me, it is a no brainer. It is almost haunting to see a beautiful and majestic tree that has been brutally mistreated. Stubbed....
Garden Reflection
fransfairgarden.com In this twilight zone of COVID, homesteading and self reliance for food and beauty of life has surged. It is not...
Why Doesn't My Hydrangea Ever Bloom?
I’d like to address that for all of those with the same question. Some folks out of frustration remove the large lush Hydrangea after...
Pre Season Garden Prep
Hi Folks. If you are at all like me, you are so over the winter down time of jigsaw puzzles, living to eat, endless movies, and pulling...
Why Become a Gardener?
Cultivating friendships, sowing seeds, and enriching the earth are the obvious reasons to get growing. But the less obvious reasons...
Is Gardening For You?
A fall market outing with a friend today was much needed, and a reminder that time flies all too quickly. Is it really September? We...
Weeding to Avoid Insanity
It doesn’t take a Psychology Degree to see that NOW more than ever, it is important to keep our mind and body busy with CONSTRUCTIVE...