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Good Landscapes Keep the Value UP

Good Landscapes Keep the Value UP

Ken Lain, mountain gardener

Waves of gardeners have come in this week asking what variety of pink blooming Prescott Redbuds bloom lavender pink with little to no care required trees are showing off this...

Good Landscapes Keep the Value UP

Ken Lain, mountain gardener

Waves of gardeners have come in this week asking what variety of pink blooming Prescott Redbuds bloom lavender pink with little to no care required trees are showing off this...

Create a Head High Hedge

Create a Head High Hedge

Ken Lain, mountain gardener

Spring weather has arrived in all its mountain glory and gardeners are back outdoors. Privacy, wind breaks and hedgerows are not top-of-mind when inside waiting for the next snow storm...

Create a Head High Hedge

Ken Lain, mountain gardener

Spring weather has arrived in all its mountain glory and gardeners are back outdoors. Privacy, wind breaks and hedgerows are not top-of-mind when inside waiting for the next snow storm...

Spring Planting Season Starts This Week

Spring Planting Season Starts This Week

Ken Lain, mountain gardener

There is no holding back spring now! This winter has been long and arduous. While walking the gardens this week summarizing the possible damage, irrigations needs, vegetable placement, with some...

Spring Planting Season Starts This Week

Ken Lain, mountain gardener

There is no holding back spring now! This winter has been long and arduous. While walking the gardens this week summarizing the possible damage, irrigations needs, vegetable placement, with some...

Successfully Planting Technique this Spring

Ken Lain, mountain gardener

Planting success in spring comes down to the right food. If you followed this column’s advice earlier in the month and put your plant foods down before the last moisture,...

Successfully Planting Technique this Spring

Ken Lain, mountain gardener

Planting success in spring comes down to the right food. If you followed this column’s advice earlier in the month and put your plant foods down before the last moisture,...

Step-By-Step to Great Garden Soils

Ken Lain, mountain gardener

We know that the better the soil the larger the harvest. Once you have tried digging your first planting hole in a mountain garden you learn that our native soils...

Step-By-Step to Great Garden Soils

Ken Lain, mountain gardener

We know that the better the soil the larger the harvest. Once you have tried digging your first planting hole in a mountain garden you learn that our native soils...

7 Tasks for a Successful Landscapes

7 Tasks for a Successful Landscapes

Ken Lain, mountain gardener

This weekend marks that start of spring break for many schools, and at the Lains’ house a chance to wrap up spring garden tasks and to kick off the planting...

7 Tasks for a Successful Landscapes

Ken Lain, mountain gardener

This weekend marks that start of spring break for many schools, and at the Lains’ house a chance to wrap up spring garden tasks and to kick off the planting...