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The featured plant for this week is the Lavender Lady carnation. Perennial carnations are the most popular cut flowers in the world, and this stunning newcomer with its long vigorous stems is a standout. The flowers last and last after…

I have some very exciting news for local gardeners: With the help of a buddy who owns a large organic farm in California I was able to design, label, and register two new organic fertilizers for mountain gardens. The foods…

Containers filled with colorful plants will bring a fresh touch to any garden, regardless of the garden’s size or style. Pots full of flowers and brightly colored foliage can be an inexpensive way to garden, and for some folks they…

This week is always a special time at our house for two reasons. First, we celebrate the birthday of our twins, our youngest daughters, Meghan and McKenzie. So, Happy “Sweet 16” Birthday wishes to you both! Prescott motorists: If you…

This year’s gardening season kicks off in March with cool season vegetables. Since seedlings take up to eight weeks before they are ready for transplanting out of doors, and the 2012 vegetable and flower seeds have arrived at the garden…

We know that the better the soil the larger the harvest. Once you have tried digging your first planting hole in a mountain garden you learn that our native soils are HARD ! ! That’s why successful mountain gardening has…

Spring break at the Lains’ casa is a chance to wrap up spring gardening tasks and to kick off the first planting season. These are things I do every spring to get ready for the growing season, and they don’t…

One of the joys of any garden center is the debut of new plants. This year’s  Serenity Magic Osteospermum is one of those exciting introductions. The plant is over a foot tall and covered in cyber-bronze flowers with a vanishing…

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could enjoy an attractive, colorful garden without spending all of your free time working at it? Well, it can be done. All it takes is some knowledge about the right plants with the right…

Experienced gardeners know that great gardens are a process, not a destination, and the wisest gardeners learn from each other’s mistakes. In my many efforts to create the gardens I see in my mind’s eye I’ve had my share of…