Demonstration gardens like the one at University of Nevada Extension, Clark County, are packed with ideas making the most of a planting space. (Photo credit Chris Eirschele) Demonstration and trial gardens put on by university extension-Master Gardener organizations will feed your mind with ideas. Their vegetable gardens can fill your stomach [...]

Melinda’s city front yard was graced with the disease resistant sergeant crabapple Candy Mint filled with pink blooms and serviceberry Princess Diana which bloomed later. (Photo by Melinda Myers) The first time I met Melinda Myers was at Hawks Nursery in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, in 1999. She was signing copies of her book, The Garden Book [...]

William Radler’s garden has much to see in the middle of May in Wisconsin. (Photo by Chris Eirschele) I remembered the first time I saw his garden. I stood in the road, which wound past his house from the wooded parkway and the residential neighborhood bordering a busy Milwaukee street. You would have to know that he bred a rose special [...]

A towering maple tree gives shade to the gardens in summer. (Photo by Chris Eirschele) My garden in Hales Corners, Wisconsin, began as a clean slate of top soil and compost in early 2000s. I was the first person to plant anything in it and I chose primarily perennials. The garden faces eastward, set on an incline, and surrounds the trunk of a [...]

Shades of yellow in daffodils brighten spring days. (Photo credit Chuck Eirschele) Whether you call those pretty yellow flowers daffodils, narcissus or even jonquils, the flowers that pop up in spring, whose flower is made up of petals surrounding a cup, are worth the little effort to plant in autumn. Daffodil flowers soften the bones of bare [...]