Tag : Video

Garden Conservancy: Preserving the American Landscape

Garden Conservancy: Preserving the American Landscape

Preserving great gardens is a priority to me. I applaud the efforts of organizations like The Garden Conservancy that dedicates itself to restoring and maintaining public and private gardens throughout the country.

5 Comments / 309 View / February 20, 2009

Cats as “Rodent” Control in the Garden

Cats as “Rodent” Control in the Garden

Got ivy? You got rodents! Got vegetables and fruit trees? You got rodents! Got junipers or taxus shrubs? Congratulations, you are probably hosting a rodent hotel. Deer mice, field mice, rats, and squirrels are the most common household rodents and…

7 Comments / 211 View / January 24, 2009

Lechuza Self Watering Containers

Lechuza “Self Watering” Plant Containers!

Lechuza Self Watering Containers

  The Lechuza, "Self Watering" Plant containers were a hit at the Independent Garden Center Show, Chicago.   Garden Center TV: Post #5   The reason why I have failed with some of my container plants is because of improper watering….

9 Comments / 1304 View / November 6, 2008

Capessa.com Interview With Designer Shirley Bovshow

Capessa.com Interview With Designer Shirley Bovshow

I've had lots of requests to re-post the video interview that Capessa ( a women's website community) did with me almost a year ago. I talk about how I was a stay at home mom, got into landscape design and ended…

8 Comments / 164 View / September 28, 2008

shovels and gardening tools

Garden Tools Demystified: Start With the Basics!

shovels and gardening tools

Eden-Maker Tip When I was new to gardening, I went crazy buying every tool I could get my hands on. I wanted to have the best- stocked tool shed, although most of my gardening activity was limited to planting, pruning…

9 Comments / 251 View / August 28, 2008

Luaus and Getting Leied in Lahaina!

Luaus and Getting Leied in Lahaina!

 I’m not trying to be coy with my post title, there is a reason why I worded it that way. My family, along with our best friends, the Hargraves family, attended a luau in Lahaina where the hosts made a…

4 Comments / 1155 View / July 29, 2008

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