Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy A May 2025 RGG Garden Tour There’s a May 2025 RGG garden tour lurking here in RGG YouTube Channel form. (You’ll find the link below.) It amounts to keeping tabs on my garden’s various planting beds as they recover from disastrous climate anomalies and equally disastrous decision-making. By John […]
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Misting and Watering Phalaenopsis Orchids Misting and watering Phalaenopsis orchids sufficiently and correctly helps ensure that these exotic beauties stay healthy, happy, and blooming full-on. By John G. Stamos Table of Contents Misting and Watering Phalaenopsis Orchids: A Moth Orchid Introduction with Some Really Helpful Info Phalaenopsis orchid appearance:
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy In the Midst of Plant Lives I live my own life in the midst of plant lives. Many, many plant lives. Since I’m the publisher here, this situation would seem to be about right. But I choose to live my life with plants for reasons far beyond the vocational.
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy How Mulching Helps Perennials in Winter This short garden tour feature doesn’t really include an actual garden tour video. What it does contain is a video, which is really more of a brief cautionary tale, that demonstrates firsthand – with my own garden as your very own Exhibit A
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Save These Potted Plants! For a sentimental sap like me, it’s tough to say goodbye to any plant, even the ones that are clinical flatliners. But in the case of these eight container-dwellers, sentimentality doesn’t even figure. Not pitching them is a complete no-brainer. Even though these plants are
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Rhododendron Leaves in Winter Why do rhododendron leaves in winter look shriveled and weird? The answer comes in two parts, and both of them are interesting, and perfectly normal. By John G. Stamos Table of Contents Rhododendron Leaves in Winter: An Intro and a Little Background So, a few
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Potted Christmas Rose Turning Brown? Hey, Don’t Quit on It! Did you fall in love over the holidays with a cute little potted Christmas Rose plant at your local nursery? Could you not resist buying it, bringing it home, and setting it up on your mantel so your family
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Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Know and Love the Christmas Rose: Helleborus niger To know the Christmas Rose is to love the Christmas Rose. Like its cousin the Lenten Rose, this Hellebore blooms during the coldest months of the year. But it’s a Christmas Rose, not a Lenten Rose, so… Ho ho ho! Its
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Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy A Short History of Flowers by Advolly Richmond A Short History of Flowers by Advolly Richmond is positively one of the loveliest books I’ve had the pleasure of reading and experiencing. So many of the plants (and their flowers, of course) that have enchanted humankind for centuries are lovingly
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Winterizing Exposed Potted Perennials Sometimes, you might not only need to leave your perennials in pots outdoors all winter, you might also need to leave them right out in the open in a windy, exposed location outdoors all winter. Relax. You got this. Because winterizing exposed potted perennials is
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