Learn about some wonderful ornamental vegetables for your annual border with Horticulturist Josh...
#BranchOut: Rose Garden Gates
Learn about the fascinating stories and symbolic sculpted flowers of the Dean Bond Rose Garden...
Leveling Up your Rain Garden
Looking for planting inspiration for your rain garden this spring?...
Swarthmore Roundabout: Gravel Gardening
This summer, we discussed the techniques and benefits of gravel gardening. The Scott Arboretum’s...
Festive Winter Containers
As we move into the cold weather, you can dress-up your containers for the winter. Because of the...
Gravel Gardening: The Planting Formula to Success
In our first discussion of gravel gardens, we discussed a small planting around the...
Gravel Gardening: Swarthmore Entrance Rock
If you’ve passed the Swarthmore College Entrance Rock in the last couple of months you may...
Bands of Color
Some principles of good garden design emphasize the use of colored foliage to create pops of color...
Beyond Beauty: Why your Rose Garden needs more then Roses
Have you visited the modern rose garden? The one interplanted with all types of flowering...
Designing Your Containers With Plants
Container gardening reflects each gardener’s personal style, so you’ll see a wide array of...
Bio Char: Exploring a New Soil Amendment
What is it? Biochar is the carbon-rich product that results when biomass such as wood, manure, or...
Color All Season
As a child I was mesmerized by the vivid colors of tulips, lupines, delphiniums, and oriental...
Artful Gardens Part III: Terry Shane Teaching Garden
A celebration of ARTiculture (theme from the 2014 Philadelphia Flower Show) continues all year at...
Front Porch Fabulous
This month the Community Arts Center has opened their Designer Show House in Swarthmore, PA. The...
What’s Out There® and why should you care?
Gardeners are always seeking inspiration, and it is sometimes found in unlikely or unexpected...
ARTiculture all summer long
This Sunday, March 9 the Philadelphia Flower Show’s celebration of art and horticulture...
Lets Get Visual
Check out this great picture step-by-step guide to planting a winter container. This article...
4 Tips to Getting the Most Out of a Garden Consultation
Guest Author: Susan Mintun It has happened to all of us at one time or another; do you recognize...







