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One of the best perks of a garden is having a ready and steady supply of stems to pick to bring inside for flower arrangements. We're lucky to have a whole garden -- The William F. and M. Kathleen Church Cutting Garden -- dedicated to that very ...

I promised a post on the decade's best plants and after making an enormous list with Gail's help, realized that it was too hard to narrow down our favorites to a mere ten. So, because our favorite perennials and shrubs are essentially permanent ...

The William F. and M. Kathleen Church Cutting Garden (I love using its whole name) went full circle yesterday - from spring's tulips to spring's tulips.  Last Tuesday, after cutting buckets of bouquets from the still blooming garden, the Deadheads ...

Build a Bamboo Garden Arch With the Blithewold Gardens Crew Friday, April 5 9 AM Location: Greenhouse/Bamboo Grove Learn how to build your own bamboo structure to support climbing plants in the home garden. We will harvest, clean, and prepare ...

How does one not fall in love with September? The weather is temperate, the gardens are in full bloom, and there is an abundance of insect life everywhere you look. It is glorious. Despite all of this, I see fewer visitors in the gardens these days ...

When rising temperatures and humidity levels make me question my decision to work outside for a living, the gardens we create here at Blithewold remind me that I made the right choice. Anyone who gardens (professionally or otherwise) will tell you ...

This week truly feels like summer. Humidity is on the rise, temperatures are reliably 80+ degrees every day with night temperatures in the 60s. The gardens have shed their gentle spring blooms for summer's ebullient growth. At first I am reluctant ...

October is secretly a beautiful month in the garden. The moderate daytime and nighttime temperatures make for an extended season of blooms. Dahlias especially appreciate this change of pace. They are no lovers of our super hot summers here in the ...

When September rolls around, many think of school and an end to all the fun that can be had in summer. But, truly, summer lives on in the gardens. With fall not starting until September 22nd, we still have three weeks of summer left and the flowers ...

It is about this time each year that I become enamored with all the color in the gardens. Soft blues and lavenders, bright reds and oranges, pretty pinks and everything in between. I've written and spoken about color in the garden before, and my ...