Gardening and Garden Design

Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Know and Love the Celestial™ Northern Lights Viola The Celestial™ Northern Lights Viola is a cold-hardy, robust perennial violet that will bring beauty, color, and charm to partially sunny or partially shady areas of your garden.  Plant this little beauty and you’ll soon find out that to know the

Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Granular Iron for Yellow Leaves on Indoor Plants Yellowing foliage on your indoor potted plants?  An iron deficiency could be the problem.  Read on to see what the right granular iron can do for those nasty yellow leaves. By John G. Stamos Table of Contents Introduction to Granular Iron

Get to Know the Missouri Evening Primrose Like a secret shared by a lover, one of the most beautiful blooms in my garden first reveals itself at night, and it remains on luminous display throughout the following morning all the way into the afternoon.  This ethereal yellow flower floats in the darkness before dawn, and

Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Acidifying Soil in Winter in the Midwest Acidifying soil in winter in the Midwest (or anywhere else) doesn’t need to be complicated.  Using the right product is way more than half the battle. By John G. Stamos Table of Contents Acidifying Soil in Winter in the Midwest: An Introduction

Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy 20 Awesome Holiday Gift Ideas for the Gardener(s) in Your Life From gardening implements and accessories, to hand and finger care, to books, to construction tools, to seeds and bareroot plants… this comprehensive list has got all of the best holiday gift ideas for the gardener, or gardeners, in

Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Help Your Tropical Plants Recover from Relocation Shock Plants can go into shock just as animals do.  Plant shock resulting from relocation is really a thing, and it happens frequently to tropical plants, or those that are hardy only down to zone 9 or above, that are moved indoors

Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy 5 Great Bulbs for Fall Planting Searching for ideas for some great bulbs for fall planting?  Look no further!  These old standbys are reliable as clockwork, super easy to plant, even easier to care for, and are true garden beauties.  By John G. Stamos Greetings, gang, and welcome back. 

Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy 12 Questions with Cathy Allen of IvyGate Flower Farm The master gardener and grower discusses, among other things, the pros and cons (believe it or not, there are some cons) of translating over a half-century of gardening experience into a successful floral business.  Cathy Allen explains what it takes