If you have specimen plants which need warmer climate zones than the rest of your garden, you can easily create a suitable space for them within your regular garden! Just create a shelter with a south facing wall which will become a solar collector, absorbing warmth in the day and releasing it at night, thus providing your specimen plants with the…[Read more]

Start your plants in some pots and plant its seedlings in the garden. Doing this will increase the survival rate of all your outdoor plants. It also permits you to tighten the time between plantings. Once you remove the most recent mature plants from your garden, the seedlings are immediately ready to be planted.

Planting a bare-root rose.…[Read more]