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Garden Quote: To Sit in The Shade on a Fine Day

"To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment." - Jane Austen

“To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”
– Jane Austen

Putting Life on the Patio

patio garden - boston

 

I just came back from work and I had a big smile on my face!

It looks absolutely gorgeous!

Thank you so much for putting some life on my patio!

You are a true professional and I can see how passionate and how much you care about your work.

Hard to find people like you nowadays.

It feels so good to look outside and see some green.

I love the character that these plants have!

~~ RH, South End Boston

Al Fresco Dining in the Patio Garden

dining in the patio garden

Even when it’s humid out, dinner tastes better on the patio!
~ Deborah Trickett

 

Great Alternatives for Shade Garden Plants

During a recent shopping trip to one of my favorite wholesale nurseries, I overheard a woman (who I assumed was a designer) explain to her client, “Well you have shade options here…basically begonias and begonias.” I had to bite my tongue. Which I do frequently. For example, at one of the big box stores when I saw the person in line in front of me with a container and a bag of garden soil. My tongue wanted to say “Excuse me, you cannot use that soil in a container, it won’t drain well.” But one look at my daughter and I bit my tongue. Apparently being, what I consider “helpful and friendly” is actually “weird and embarrassing.” So I also bit my tongue when I heard another one of the salespeople remark to a customer, “Why you can put a mountain of this granular bug killer on your lawn and it won’t harm anything.” Really? Jaw clenched I retreated to the plumbing aisle.

But back to shade options. Begonias are fine, as are impatiens, but is that really the only material the aforementioned designer could offer her client?

Had she never heard of coleus?

best interesting plant for shade gardens

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Garden Quote: Closest to Being Present at Creation

"I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation." - Phyllis Theroux

“I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.”
– Phyllis Theroux

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