Tag: Wendy Blair

Our Nepeta (catmint) has been the star of our June garden – how can I get it to keep blooming longer and longer? For everything...

Can you suggest a reliable perennial that blooms a long time and is not very tall? We like the color blue! You might consider perennial...

What’s a good inexpensive holiday gift for gardeners who have everything? Gardeners always need disposable gloves to avoid dirty hands and fingernails. In addition, leather...

Newspaper articles tell how urgent it is to save bees, whose numbers have been decimated from changes in farming, climate, chemicals and predators all...

We planted a stand of bamboo years ago, thinking it would be a wonderful screen – and boy, it has been. But I never...

My healthy indoor Clivia plant has not bloomed since we moved across the street.  I swear I have put them in identical light and...

Gardeners spend January sitting by a cozy fire reading garden sales catalogues. I can't. My New Year's Resolutions are too URGENT. Please help me...

I plan to buy some Fritillaria bulbs this fall. Judging from pictures they’re very tall and stunningly beautiful. But a gardening friend made a...

My gorgeous scarlet Monarda Didyma refuses to stay put. It wanders around in the garden. Is there any Monarda that stays in one place...

What can I plant to hide the old leaves of daffodils? And, when my Virginia bluebells die back to nothing, as they do –...