Wordpress Author A Guide To Growing Oaks: Picking a Tree Oaks are part of nearly every landscape in North America. There are 91 species of oaks in the United States, and another 100 or so crosses between species. Choosing an oak for your landscape can be ch... Jan 28, 2021 Blog
Wordpress Author Shade Gardening: Creation and Maintenance Shade gardening is more than just an idea, it is a way of life for those living among the trees. When I first moved east from central Kansas, I had no idea that shade gardening would become such a big... Jan 21, 2021 Blog
Wordpress Author Houseplants Easy to Grow - Top 10 If there is one thing that refuses to grow in my own house, it is houseplants . Because I live in a wooded landscape, with large roof eaves (4 foot), houseplants do not like me. And I will not change ... Jan 14, 2021 Blog
Wordpress Author How To Attract Insect Pollinators to Your Garden Welcome to the new year! Last season was one of the busiest gardening seasons for many across the country, with many new gardeners. With all those new gardeners, came a plethora of questions about a w... Jan 7, 2021 Blog
Wordpress Author 12 Things Every Gardener Should Know You know the song… “and a partridge in a pear tree”. Well, I do not know about the partridge, but I would take the pear tree. Anyways, as 2020 comes to a close, I was thinking about all the gardening ... Dec 31, 2020 Blog
Wordpress Author Growing Fruit - Problems of Stone Fruits In the last blog I went over all the major problems of pome fruits in the Central Great Plains. Now I am ready to get on to something even juicier, the stone fruits. Peaches are stone fruits What are ... Dec 24, 2020 Blog
Wordpress Author Growing Fruit - Problems of Apples and Pears Just as soon as I get one thing done in the orchard, more work suddenly springs upon me. When growing fruit trees with as few chemical inputs as possible, there can never be too much time in the orcha... Dec 17, 2020 Blog
Wordpress Author Creating A Fruit Tree Guild to Improve Biodiversity When I was first approached to write on this subject, earlier in 2020, I admit, I really had no idea what a fruit tree guild was. However, once I looked into it, I discovered that I was aware of the c... Dec 16, 2020 Blog
Wordpress Author What are Nativars and are They Better? I have had very heated discussions over the use of nativars with my purest friends in the native plant community. They prefer to use only true from seed native plants in their gardens, but I think sel... Dec 10, 2020 Blog
Wordpress Author Grimm's Gardens 2020 - A Look Through the Gardens Here at Grimm’s Gardens, I have had the pleasure to maintain and help re-imagine the gardens around the office, sales shed, and greenhouses for almost 10 years! Looking west from the Sales Shed areas ... Dec 3, 2020 Blog
Wordpress Author The Kansas Gardener's Garden - 2020 It is that time of year again; time to take a tour through my gardens ! Even in other years, the only people that visit my gardens are my family, so the pandemic did not change much. I love sharing pl... Nov 26, 2020 Blog
Wordpress Author 2020 Year in Review - Annual Color Each year I love doing annual color plantings more and more. In the past, I used to hate annuals , but I have learned how much of an impact and statement they can make. With our ever-changing weather ... Nov 19, 2020 Annuals