Great choices for Hip & Cool Garden Plants are covered in this 8 part series designed to add a little zip to your summer garden!   Dovecote is the teaching garden design lab and home to The Garden Talk Salon at Dargan Landscape Architects.   

Topics in this episode: 

. Selections of Shrubs...my favorites  . Selections of Ground Covers... my favorites . Selections of Perennials/Ephemerals...my very most favorites!    Cheers!

Great choices for Hip & Cool Garden Plants are covered in this 8 part series designed to add a little zip to your summer garden!   Dovecote is the teaching garden design lab and home to The Garden Talk Salon at Dargan Landscape Architects.   

Topics in this episode: 

. 2 x 4 method: "2" the merits of a balance of evergreens & deciduous native plants . 2 x 4 method: "4" trees, shrubs, ground covers & perennials/ephemerals . Selections of Trees: native small flowering Chionanthus (grancy grey beard) & umbrella mags   Cheers!

Great choices for Hip & Cool Garden Plants are covered in this 8 part series designed to add a little zip to your summer garden!   Dovecote is the teaching garden design lab and home to The Garden Talk Salon at Dargan Landscape Architects.   

Topics in this episode: 

. Problem-solving criteria . A client brief to restore a waterfall/watershed . Revegetation & Biodiversity for a healthy, vital woodland   Cheers!

Great choices for Hip & Cool Garden Plants are covered in this 8 part series designed to add a little zip to your summer garden!   Dovecote is the teaching garden design lab and home to The Garden Talk Salon at Dargan Landscape Architects.    Topics in this episode:  . There are four main categories . Larval host plants . Seed/Rich nut producing plants . Barry producing plants/nectar-producing plants   Cheers!

Great choices for Hip & Cool Garden Plants are covered in this 8 part series designed to add a little zip to your summer garden!   Dovecote is the teaching garden design lab and home to The Garden Talk Salon at Dargan Landscape Architects.    Topics in this episode:  . There are four main categories . Larval host plants . Seed/Rich nut producing plants . Barry producing plants/nectar-producing plants   Cheers!

Great choices for Hip & Cool Garden Plants are covered in this 8 part series designed to add a little zip to your summer garden!   Dovecote is the teaching garden design lab and home to The Garden Talk Salon at Dargan Landscape Architects.    Topics in this episode:    . Solving problems in your garden and cultivating health? Elderberry is the plant for you! . The native Sambucus Americana is a fantastic plant to help mother nature fulfill its duty in your garden by providing nectar for pollinators. . It also provides the humans around it with both Flowers and Berrys, which are very very good for medicinal purposes and to make fun drinks. . It also comes in several colors such as champagne lemony Lace which is my all-time favorite shrub at this very moment. . Experiment with elderflower champagne and with elderberry wine!     Cheers!

Great choices for Hip & Cool Garden Plants are covered in this 8 part series designed to add a little zip to your summer garden!   Dovecote is the teaching garden design lab and home to The Garden Talk Salon at Dargan Landscape Architects.    Topics in this episode:    . Deciduous benefits for summer shade and winter sun . Flamingo Box Elder Acer negundo 'Flamingo' . Japanese Maples, a marvelous diversity . Full moon Japanese Maple . Research your particular zone..read about your heat/cold tolerance in your community and purchase your plants accordingly!   Cheers!

Great choices for Hip & Cool Garden Plants are covered in this 8 part series designed to add a little zip to your summer garden!   Dovecote is the teaching garden design lab and home to The Garden Talk Salon at Dargan Landscape Architects.    Topics in this episode:    . Accent trees small, medium and large . Evergreen & deciduous . Purposeful planting- solve a problem! . Cornus kousa’wolfeyes’ . Picea orientalis ‘Skagit or Gaudi’   Cheers!

Design your vegetable garden to rock your life! You want convenient good produce close at hand, fresh air, get some exercise and meet a community of like-minded gardeners. It’s a lot easier than you ever imagined… Happy gardening! 

Topics in this episode: 

. Choosing your greenhouse wisely. . The Master Gardener program is a fabulous way to learn how to grow!    Cheers!

Design your vegetable garden to rock your life! You want convenient good produce close at hand, fresh air, get some exercise and meet a community of like-minded gardeners. It’s a lot easier than you ever imagined… Happy gardening! 

Topics in this episode: 

. What is soil blocking as a technique? . Why is it sustainable? . Watch out for the power it takes to run a seat that heating unit!   Cheers!