pruning

Garden Designers Roundtable- My ‘Don’t Do This’ Top Ten List

by Rebecca Sweet 24 January 2012

I’ve been wanting to write about this for a long, long time – my Top 10 things NOT to do in your garden!  Having designed gardens for over a decade, I’ve seen a lot of crazy things; some funny, some not so much. Please join me today, along with the rest of the Garden Designers [...]

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My very favorite roses – and how I prune them…

by Rebecca Sweet 19 January 2010

. Roses, roses, roses…nothing says ‘spring is right around the corner’ more than all the bare-root roses in stock right now at the nurseries. Especially when you see their hopeful, little leaves starting to emerge from their stark stems. And now’s the time to buy them, as they’re such a better deal when sold bare-root [...]

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Prune my hydrangeas in December? No Way!!

by Rebecca Sweet 7 December 2009

. Pruning hydrangeas in Northern California is entirely different from the colder parts of the country. What you read in most gardening magazines doesn’t always apply here because our hydrangeas are looking pretty awesome right now! I mean really…who in their right mind would want to prune off these gorgeous blooms! The photo at left [...]

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Learning how to ‘Read’ your perennials

by Rebecca Sweet 6 December 2009

. It’s been a cold and frosty December, and this is the time when I begin to receive daily emails from people asking how and when to prune their perennials. Here in the Bay Area (USDA zone 8b) most of our gardens are still looking pretty good – some of the more tender annuals are [...]

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When your Ornamental Grass has a Bad Hair Day

by Rebecca Sweet 26 October 2009

. Here in Northern California (specifically the Bay Area – USDA zone 8b), ornamental grasses can look fabulous all the way through December.  But once the temperatures start to dip and the occasional frost hits, the grasses start to lose their form and color and one day you walk outside and all you’ve got is [...]

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