by Member Juliet Silveri In February 2021 I began an ambitious, ongoing landscape project, converting overgrown but flat and sunny farm space into beauty–garden rooms, allees, rows of hedges, a terrace, and inviting paths. I hired a landscape designer, with the intent of keeping the outer areas pastoral (grass, some large trees, a fence, a … Read more
May 31, 2022 By Gardeners Exchange member Juliet Silveri “Your work clearing out your backyard landscape has been exemplary,” said my landscape designer at the beginning of April, as she surveyed the back yard. Last season I had had masses of invasive bushes, weeds, and forsythia cleared out, then had the areas either rototilled or … Read more
By Juliet Silveri When I first saw the land, its farm-like beauty had a feeling that I wanted to keep. To me, a farm is a home that is comforting, peaceful, and is full of fields, meadows, stone walls, birds and beasts, and has plenty of land. Now that I have the land–my desire for … Read more
From Janet Tice Gardening is a life long learning experience, a combination of reading how-tos, learning from other gardeners, and trial and error experimentation. One of the things I’ve taken to heart over the years is the mantra of many a Gardeners Exchange presenter: soil matters. In my garden, which has been carved out of … Read more
I planted my healthy little chrysanthemum dividends in the center of my yard in June. I watered them every other day and fertilized once a week. Side shoots were starting to appear. They were growing strong! Then, one day, they were nothing but sticks. Something had eaten every last leaf. Rabbits, insects, woodchuck? I cycled … Read more