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Snow Days
Snow Days
Kim Jewell — February 8, 2026
Kim Jewell — February 8, 2026
When everything is covered in snow, the landscape is peaceful and still. The snow sparkles and all is white and pure. It’s magical to stand outside with the big, fluffy flakes falling around you. But did you know that snow is really good for our gardens? It's referred to as the "poor man's fertilizer."
Read more about the importance of snow for your garden and your own health!
All For the Love of Bee Balm
All For the Love of Bee Balm
Kim Jewell — June 9, 2024
Kim Jewell — June 9, 2024
Monarda is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family. Bee Balm is native to North America. Common names include bergamot, bee balm, horsemint, and oswego tea, the first being inspired by the fragrance of the leaves, which is reminiscent of bergamot orange. Don't miss the recipe for Bee Balm Cookies!
Garden Elements: Structure
Garden Elements: Structure
Kim Jewell
Kim Jewell
Your garden only needs to be pleasing to one person. YOU! Regardless of the garden style that tickles your fancy, you should start you pan with the element of structure. Structure is considers the bones of and garden and it often achieved with the additional of hardscape, trees and shrubs and quite often the herbaceous plants you choose.
Growing Poppies
Growing Poppies
Kim Jewell
Kim Jewell
Even after all these years of playing in the dirt, I still have those failures that make me wonder if I really truly know anything at all about gardening. For me that failure is poppies. I did not even try to grow them for the longest time but then a few years ago on a snowy January I was flipping through a Select Seeds catalog and I happened across Princess Victoria Louise.
Read more to learn about the many stunning poppy varieties to grace your yard.
Garden Elements: Balance
Garden Elements: Balance
Kim Jewell
Kim Jewell
Balance in a garden is a harmonious and pleasing space for the eye to take in while still being unique and exciting. A well-balanced garden makes you feel at ease. Gardens are often a therapeutic place of serenity.
Read more to learn about symmetrical and asymmetrical gardens.
Seed Starting — Winter Sowing
Seed Starting — Winter Sowing
Kim Jewell
Kim Jewell
Winter sowing is a fun and easy way to start seeds outside during the winter. You plant your seeds in miniature greenhouses made from recycled plastic containers, and then put them outside in the snow and freezing cold. Once the weather starts to warm up in the spring, the seeds will germinate at their own pace, just as in nature. Sounds cool, right?
It gets better... Read more.
Garden Elements: Color
Garden Elements: Color
Kim Jewell
Kim Jewell
Color in the garden is of course about the pretty flowers that you want to plant, but what about when the flowers are not in bloom? Overall garden design needs to concentrate not just on what happens in June and July, but also what happens in October and November.
Read more to learn how to grow an eye-catching garden.
Prairie Dropseed
Prairie Dropseed
Kim Jewell
Kim Jewell
Imagine walking along a path lined with gentle, graceful grasses! Prairie Dropseed is one of our native dry prairie grasses that is indifferent to soil texture and will grow in clays or sands.
Read more to learn more about the many reasons this is a very worthwhile plant to add to your garden.
Spring Chores
Spring Chores
Kim Jewell
Kim Jewell
March it is time to start gardening chores in earnest. SMART gardeners know that you should always make two lists… One that starts with “if the ground is thawed…” And the other for “if the ground is still frozen…”
Read more for a quick list of spring chores to focus on!
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