(Photograph by Daniel Starrason)
Here are 8 things you can do for the garden in December:
1. Plant bulbs until the ground freezes or during a thaw.
2. Put burlap on stakes for winter protection of broadleaf evergreens or shrubs like roses that you want to protect.
3.  Apply winter mulches to bulbs, perennials, strawberries or shrubs AFTER the [...]

My nom de plume is Lilac.  So what’s in a name?  What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet” from Romeo and Juliette.  But I wondered how many of my readers’s names come from flowers, shrubs or trees? Or, how many of my readers want to [...]