City Gardening

a gardening journal by Lorraine Flanigan

Posts Tagged ‘grasses’

1 of 10 Ways to Spruce Up Your Garden for Spring

By Lorraine • Mar 13th, 2010 • Category: Dig in, Fresh Dirt, Spring

1.Make Cut Backs
Stems and stalks of perennials like sedum, coneflower and phlox look wonderful growing through drifts of snow, but let’s face it, they’ve served their purpose, and as the world around them starts to turn green, their unsightly brown clumps should be chopped to the ground. Also remove the dead leaves of coral bells, hostas, [...]



In Praise of Late Summer Gardens

By Lorraine • Aug 28th, 2008 • Category: Dig in, Summer

How and when did we start thinking that back-to-school time signals the change in seasons from summer to fall? Technically, summer is with us until September 22, so there’s a whole lotta summer left to enjoy. If you’re one of the many who think that June is the peak of the gardening season, listen up [...]