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Over 25 year’s experience designing, planting and growing perennial plants
and gardens.
Welcome to GARDEN POSSIBILITIES!,
where we're not only passionate about perennial gardens, plants, and the
joys of gardening,
but also about gardeners - helping new gardeners
learn more about the fascinating and creative playground in our own backyards.
Through
on-site consultations, gardening
seminars, newsletters, and the articles here, my goal is to not only
create beautiful perennial gardens but to inspire
and inform gardeners about the endless creative possibilities even the
smallest patch of ground offers.
My specialty is designing
perennial gardens that go beyond the ordinary - from lower
maintenance front gardens full of drought tolerant plants and flowing
ornamental grasses, to rich overflowing flower beds full of colour and scent, or a
stately landscaped border of modern shrubs.
Browse
around the web site for lots of practical gardening tips, or email
anytime for more information on our perennial garden design and planting
services.
I hope you'll visit here
often in your quest for a garden that delights the senses and feeds
the
soul.
Evelyn
Wolf
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Outside
My Window
Updated regularly,
here's a few gardening tasks and notes
for
this week. (Time for an update! Soon...soon - as
soon as I dig out my 1,323rd
dandelion!)
March
17th, 2011
Spring, not Fall is the best time to
clean up plant debris for plant and soil health, but after the snow
melts and before anything starts greening up, has to be the very ugliest
phase of a perennial garden’s life. More than at any other time,
this is when patience is a virtue though!
Along with your plants, worms are also
stirring from their winter dormancy and looking for food – all those
dead leaves and winter killed plant debris. Leave as much as you can
right where it is!
Cut back the gawky stems and anything
particularly unsightly, but instead of raking and bagging it up, crush
or snip into pieces and drop it right back onto the garden soil. When
you’re done, it will look much neater but you’ll likely still have the
temptation to pull out the rake and just get rid of it all. Turn away
from what may look messy right now for just a few weeks and between the
worms and the emerging plants,
it will all magically disappear from sight.
This isn’t about being lazy, this is
about leaving as much natural organic matter as possible to feed the
worms and nourish the soil.
Cheers!
Evelyn
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