Gardening is a pastime that brings enjoyment to those who do it AND those who view the results of a gardener’s efforts. And it’s a pastime we can enjoy for decades! Spring is the perfect season for sharing the love of gardening with your children, grandchildren, and maybe even your young neighbors.
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House plants clean the air and enhance the decor in our homes, and they can also reduce our stress. Various textures and colors can brighten our spirits on the coldest and darkest winter days. Some of them even may even provide a pleasant scent to tickle our noses. Following are a few suggestions from Better Homes and Gardens website:
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University of Maryland Computer Science Professor David Jacobs, in collaboration with researchers from Columbia University and the Smithsonian Institute, has developed a free mobile application for iPhone to help identify trees. The electronic field guide known as Leafsnap uses visual recognition software to identify tree species from beautiful high-resolution images taken by volunteers of leaves, flowers, [...]
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Old Crofton has a reputation for its stunning display of blooming cherry blossoms along Crofton Parkway each Spring, but they’re not the only flowering trees to beautify our neighborhood.
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You’ll find this video to be informative AND entertaining.
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Anything Crofton Village Garden Club members want to know about gardening, home repairs, technology… well, anything you want to know about any topic… is probably available on eHow.com. “Pruning Your Dwarf Cherry Trees” was the topic of their daily email today, and there were links for pruning a dwarf weeping cherry tree, a Japanese cherry [...]
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If your green thumb is just itching to get out, don’t let all the snow stop it… Exercise that green thumb by planting some Paperwhite bulbs indoors. Paperwhites (Tazetta Narcissus) are daffodils you can “force” inside your home during these dreary winter days. They are easy to grow and may relieve the winter frustrations you and your green thumb are suffering. Not only that, but Paperwhites produce clusters of small, fragrant flowers you can enjoy for a week or more…
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After several years of nurturing the azaleas in front of my house, now they are “just right” – The six little twigs planted a dozen years ago are now full-sized shrubs that mark the official beginning of Spring in my yard with their beautiful pink blooms lining my front walk. I can’t help wondering what [...]
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Four Crofton Village Garden Club members are randomly picked each month to create a horticulture exhibit at the following meeting. The theme this year is Ikebana, and members have learned by seeing the arrangements as well as making them. This month’s floral designers are Diane Smith, Leigh Klaus, Pat Stevenson and Moira Leavitt. Very nice [...]
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When I saw this pansy standing proudly above the snow earlier this month, I couldn’t help thinking of Gloria Gaynor’s 1978 hit, “I Will Survive”. Gotta love pansies! PHOTO: MWoda
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As you drive around Crofton Maryland in early spring, the first flower you’ll notice (perhaps even popping through the snow) will probably be a crocus. Soon after, you’ll see stunning gardens and accents of yellow daffodils and blue grape hyacinths… and a few weeks after that, colorful beds of tulips. These and all spring-flowering bulbs [...]
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I am excited about the focus of Crofton Village Garden Club this year on the Sogetsu method of Ikebana from the book by Sofu Teshigahara and Kasumi Teshigahara. The primary principles of Sogetsu are that anyone can do it, anything can be used, and the finished arrangement is appropriate anywhere. To me, this means a [...]
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