Images via White Flower Farm Watch for common pests and diseases. Borers may be present if Dahlia stems show breakage and wilting. Keep weeds away from the planting, and cut off and destroy any larvae-infested stems. Use a insecticidal soap or Neem to kill aphids. A bacterial or fungal agent may be present if stems […]
Landscape Design NJ
Landscaping Before and After
Sometimes it’s hard to imagine what can be possible for a landscape. You look through magazines or see photos of completed landscape design projects and they are beautiful and perfectly manicured. You might think you could never achieve that in your own garden. But what a different picture it would give you if you saw the before images. What is […]
Spring Garden Inspiration (Spring Has Sprung!)
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How to Landscape for Selling Success
BEFORE AFTER When the time comes to put your home on the market, there is a certain protocol that takes place. A realtor comes in, walks the house, a price is decided upon and then it begins. The decluttering phase! Take away family pictures, clear the countertops in the kitchen to make it look bigger, […]
Keeping a Garden Diary
When I first moved to New Jersey, I was a bridal gown designer with no gardening experience. As a child, I grew up in a row house in Brooklyn and then lived in apartments in New York City. There wasn’t much to garden in either of those locations. When we moved to NJ, to a one […]