Garden Design
PLANTING IDEAS FOR YOUR GARDEN
Planting design, often overlooked, can be tricky for new and experienced gardeners alike. Use the following suggestions to ensure that the plantings in your garden have a clear purpose and grab the attention of people, bees, birds and butterflies.
Enchanted Gardens Blog
Whether you're a weekend gardener, landscape professional, or vacation traveler, you will enjoy discovering new gardens. From gardens of natural splendor, whimsical sculptures, or historic formality, The Garden Tourist will guide you on an inspiring trip.
Boston Gardens.com
BostonGardens.com publishes local horticultural events, observations, resources, and articles.
Weston Nurseries Gardening Blog
Weston Nurseries Gardening Blog
Our blogs and videos are created regularly to address current factors we feel are important for you to know about.
Guide to Massachusetts Gardens
Guide to Massachusetts Gardens
Discover a world of gardens at historic estates and living museums, in towns and cities, at wildlife sanctuaries and conservation areas. Stroll arboretums and greenhouses, along shoreline and in open fields and meadows, wooded areas and luxury resorts. You’ll find native, rare and exotic plants, flowers, shrubs and trees plus sweeping lawns, stunning color schemes, ornamental structures, and footpaths.
Erin's Botanical Blog
Andover Garden Club member, Erin Taylor, is eager to share her passion for plants, gardens and green enthusiasm.
Paul Parent
Paul Parent has been on the radio providing gardening advice to listeners in New England for the last 33 years
Fine Gardening
Brought to you by the editors of Fine Gardening, this fun, informative podcast tackles all things topical in gardening.
The Sustainable Enough Garden
Rebecca Warner is a home gardener in Newton, Massachusetts, with thirty years' experience working toward developing a sustainable garden. She is the author of The Sustainable-Enough Garden.
Commonweeder
Pat Leuchtman lives in Greenfield, MA where she is transforming lawn into a pollinator garden focused on shrubs and other plants that like water.
Her weekly column, Between the Rows, in The Greenfield Recorder, is now being published on her website. She also writes for other publications and is a member of Garden Communicators of America (GWA).
Horticultural Hints
That first big storm the week before Christmas, and the one that seems to have started New Year’s Day and never stopped, should be reminders that snow removal in New England requires a plan that keeps plants and shrubs in mind...
Read more of Hints by Lifetime Master Gardener Betty Sanders
The Gardening Guy
Henry Homeyer is a life-long organic gardener who lives in Cornish Flat, NH.
Henry writes a weekly gardening column that appears in 12 newspapers around New England and is a regular monthly commentator on Vermont Public Radio.
Birds and Blooms
If you want to attract birds to your backyard, gardening and landscaping are a great way to do it. And when a garden’s in bloom, adding the movement of colorful birds and their cheery songs makes a backyard come alive.
Ikebana Beautiful
Ikebana Beautiful’s vision is to give the world joy in playing with the materials that nature offers us, in an an accessible way to create a life with natural materials, in a friendly and relaxing atmosphere. Making your own flower decorations can brighten your day and gives you relaxation and tranquility. It helps you to live in the moment and to get in contact with the seasons. Anyone can enjoy the beauty of nature anywhere, at any time. Which is why Ikebana Beautiful wants to inspire you.
Kerry Ann Mendez
Kerry Ann is a ‘passionate perennialist’ with over 25 years of hands-on experience. As a consultant, designer, and teacher, she specializes in low-maintenance, sustainable garden and landscape design, incorporating perennials, ornamental grasses, flowering shrubs, bulbs, and no-fuss annuals.