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Seasonal Secrets: Your September Planting Guide for Zone 6
September in Ohio's Miami Valley gets treated like the garden's closing time. And that's understandable. Your summer crops are winding down, the temps at night are dipping, and even the leaves on the trees are just
How to Design Your Dream Garden: Which Garden Style Is Right for You?
You want your dream garden to be brought to life. You might even have an ideal picture in your mind. But how do you make it a reality? We say it starts with understanding your style. Picturing a border spilling over a fence? Or a calm courtyard built around a single tree? Once you know what those styles are named, you'll have your map of how to make your dream garden your very own.
That's what this guide is for. When you know your desired garden style, you know which plants to buy and where to put them.
Your Guide to Summer Gardening in Ohio: Tips from Knollwood's Team
July in the Miami Valley is hot, sunny, sticky, and loud with cicadas. It's also when your garden is asking more of you than it has all year. But this is the season everything you planted is paying off, and a little attention now keeps that going strong. There's real work to do out there, and sometimes a little guidance can go a long way.
Seasonal Secrets: Your June Garden Checklist for Ohio's Miami Valley
June in the Miami Valley is full-throttle. The peonies are heavy with blooms. The tomatoes you planted last month have doubled in size. Your lettuce is ready to eat, the herbs smell incredible, and everything in the yard is growing faster than you can keep up with it.
How to Design Your Dream Garden: A Guide to Layering Plants for Shape, Color, and Structure
A customer came in last spring with a sketch of her garden and a lot of enthusiasm. She knew where the sun hit her yard and when, she knew what she wanted it to feel like by midsummer, and she was ready to go. We spent a happy half hour walking the aisles together, picking plants for specific spots in her beds. By the time we were done, every plant in that cart had a job in her garden. That's layering, and it's one of our favorite things to help people plan.
Ohio Native Plants for Every Yard: What to Grow in Sun, Shade, Wet Soil, and Clay
We're nuts about natives around here. Not just the usual coneflowers and black-eyed Susans (though we love those, too), but the plants we really get excited about are the ones most gardeners haven't discovered yet.