Good Bones | Deborah Silver & Co.
The picture above was taken in the early morning of Jan 3, 2021. I remember waking up well before dawn to a landscape wh...
Garden Design
Jack on lawns: why it’s time to rethink our most sustainable usable surface | Jack Wallington
I seem to be thinking about lawns more than is healthy, and I’m not the only one. I’m trying not to use the term ‘turf w...
Vernissage Again | Deborah Silver & Co.
Sixteen years ago, on April 1 of 2009, I published a blog post, appropriately entitled “Vernissage”. The title of the po...
8 tips for better watering technique | Jack Wallington
1) Water deeply
When it’s hot and sunny it’s tempting to zip around the garden watering everything but beware, most ...
Once A Year And This Is It
Once a year we have spring in Michigan, and this is it. Ha. Let that big talk on my part sink in a little. I am not a...
Review: Wikomo solar deer repeller | Jack Wallington
We live surrounded by fields and woodland in which lots of roe deer live. Deer have been demonised by gardeners but I li...
The Winter/Holiday Season at Detroit Garden Works
After an intensely re-imagined and heartfelt few weeks, all of the materials new and old we have available for winter an...
Horticulture industry bans corporations digging up precious habitats to make compost | Jack Wallington
The Government has, at long last, banned the home use of compost made from precious peatland habitats purely for the pro...
Why it’s time to ban non-organic pesticides from sale to the general public | Jack Wallington
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When I first started studying horticulture professionally in 2015, I was ...
The importance and benefits of keeping fallen leaves around plants | Jack Wallington
One of the pieces of advice the gardening world has got wrong over the years is about picking up fallen leaves from arou...