Comments on: do a garden audit, with arnold arboretum’s rodney eason

By: Norine

Norine — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 16:57:00 +0000

I started my small gardens with low-price small plants. I used to let them grow and buy more to fill in spots and experiment with new plants, now I prune and have better plants and bushes. It took me a long while to dig out and discard plants that I no longer like or do not match my changing aesthetic.
It is calming to refer to changes as the result of an audit rather than plant “killer.” Thanks for the new vocabulary.
In addition, pictures are important to help one realize that an area is bare for a while or becomes shaded six weeks later,

By: Laurel W

Laurel W — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 00:37:34 +0000

Lately, I have been incorporating auditing without knowing it as has been described in today’s interview. After visiting a lovely, local garden, I started to reimagine areas in my own yard…mostly, by removing (even more) pachysandra, which will better highlighting established trees/bushes, and replacing with plants found in adjacent areas in order to make the front gardens more cohesive. Larger projects will take a joint audit with the hubby.

By: CAROLINE COOK

CAROLINE COOK — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 23:33:02 +0000

Boy, do I need to do an audit of my cottage garden! it’s so easy to just continue doing the garden chores without really seeing the big picture (overgrown perennials and boxwoods, narrowing of the pathways, etc). I have made a list of big picture chores.