Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Please Don’t Eat the Horseradish: Growing Armoracia rusticana as an Ornamental Garden Perennial Please don’t eat the horseradish… at least not until you try growing it as a beautiful ornamental garden perennial first. By John G. Stamos Table of Contents Introduction: Please Don’t Eat the Horseradish (Buck the Status […]
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Horticultural Hygiene Even if you’re not trying to sell your house, horticultural hygiene is important. Take it from me. Clean up your yard. You’ll thank me for it. By John G. Stamos When springtime officially hit this year, my property was covered in dead leaves from autumn of last
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Lilies and Daylilies in Hardiness Zone 4A Lilies and Daylilies in Hardiness Zone 4A? You betcha. Both plants can handle the cold with no trouble at all, and their respective flowering is like no other in the world of ornamental gardens. And, on top of all that, they’re simple
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Out of the North: Richardson’s Geranium Western North America is home to many unique flower species, all of which were at first known only to the indigenous habitants of the continent. One of these eventually became known to the rest of the world after an Arctic explorer carried it
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Power Flowerers in Hardiness Zone 4A The RGG’s Midwest garden is moving to the comparatively chilly climes of Western Canada. See which plants that bloom like crazy in Michiana Shores’ Hardiness Zone 5B/6A will likewise be power flowerers in Hardiness Zone 4A in British Columbia. Surprisingly, there are a
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Early Bloomers in Hardiness Zone 4A Which perennial plants wake up and flower just as early in the year in the colder regions of Western Canada as they do in the comparatively warmer environs of Midwestern Michiana Shores here in the good old USA? Read about some of The
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Bodacious Bushes and Trees in Hardiness Zone 4A Here’s Part 3 of my photo-heavy 8-part series about garden plants that grow just as happily in chilly Western Canada as they do here in the comparatively warm Midwest United States. Give this one a read, and grow yourself some bodacious
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Foliage-intensive Perennials in Hardiness Zone 4A “Foliage-intensive Perennials in Hardiness Zone 4A” is Part 2 of an 8-part series of short, photo-heavy blurbs about red-blooded, Midwest American garden plants making the jump from their comparatively warm environs to the frosty soils of Western Canada. So, what’s leafy, green(ish), and
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Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Climbing Vines in Hardiness Zone 4A Can you grow climbing vines in Hardiness Zone 4A? Yes you can, and you’ll read about two great ornamental examples right here. If you can get past the alliteration, you’ll learn that Clematis and Climbing Hydrangea vines can be just as beautiful and
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy False No More: Western Solomon’s Plume Spring and summer in the Bridge Lake area can be measured by the appearance of many native wildflowers and plants that add depth to the landscape. Finally free from the name implying it was a false version of another plant, one of these
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