Hey Friends, I hope you are enjoying another season with your backyard pond. When you bring a water feature into the landscape, you add more than aesthetic value, you actually create an ecosystem! Building or creating a pond, wetland garden or bog, helps to create a habitat for wildlife like birds, frogs, dragonflies, butterflies, and turtles. The plants you choose...
Hello Friends, I have great news to report to you today regarding the Patrick A. Nutt Scholarship. With guidance from Longwood Garden, Paula Biles, Kelly Billing and Zac deGarmeaux, along with fellow donors, were able to help raise $30,000. to be used for new students who have been accepted into the Longwood Gardens International Internship and Training Programs. We asked...
Hello Friends, I met Ao Weerada in 2013, early in her waterlily hybridizing career/hobby. Her knowledge and enthusiasm is amazing! She is a well known grower of waterlilies, especially for commercial use in various high end products. I'd like to share some information with you about this amazing, young hybridizer, Ao Weerda. In 2001, at the age of 24, Ao...
No More Dirty Water! Some quick and easy tips to help you get your pond water "Sparkling Clean and Clear"! An easy way to clean the water in your pond is to connect a small basin near your pond, fill it with marginal bog plants and recirculate your pond water through this basin. The basin should be a minimum, 1/10th the size...