New england garden

Hydrangeas can change color (pink to blue) if you alter soil pH levels with coffee grounds, vinegar, or eggshells. Here's how to change hydrangea flowers:

Curved stone wall with colorful flowers planted along the inner curve. Some overflowing the wall.

Today we’re visiting with Rebecca Downie. This is my second submission to the GPOD. I had garden photos from our old house featured in “The Element of Surprise” several years […]

Discover the best perennials for New England gardens, including favorites like coneflowers, daylilies, hostas, and more. Enjoy vibrant blooms year after year!

Have a shady spot in your garden that needs some love? Check out our top five shade perennials for New England to add to your garden.

There’s a garden overlooking the rolling hills of Litchfield County, Connecticut, that is literally scrumptious. At the estate called Highmeadows, rows of

The last garden post overlooked some moments and photos so I’m backtracking a bit. I planted these Forget Me Nots years ago and they’ve always done okay but this year one of the plants …

Some Serious cottage garden inspiration in this post featuring New England Cottage Gardens and what cut flowers i'm planting in my garden! #garden #gardenideas #cottagegarden #cottagegardenideas #gardeninspiration

Years of trial and error gardening with flowers and shrubs, berries and vegetables, has taught this acclaimed gardening writer one thing: her land has a mind of its own.

Originally a hillside farm with a rambling house, barns, stone walls, and fields, enhanced with views of neighboring farms and distant mountains, the garden has grown to include perennial and shrub borders, rock gardens, a vegetable garden, and orchard. The main flower garden began as an old-fashioned mixed border, inspired by the gardens of the nearby Cornish Artist's Colony. Remnants of barn foundations offer settings for alpine and rock garden plants, ferns, and other specialty plants…