Imagine that you’ve moved to your retirement home, a dreamy piece of property on a hilly cove of the South Shore, and you’ve hired a restorative landscaping company to add greenery, texture, places for the dogs to play, a wildflower meadow, a vegetable garden… The result is a verdant work-in-progress. It’s cut down on a… [Read More]
The Conscious Gardener
Meet Rita Baruss: a thinker, writer, artist, mother, grandmother, yoga instructor and energy healer with training in shamanic techniques. Rita has been gardening organically all of her life. Rita has a unique position on the HNH team: she has a special interest in plant consciousness and developing communications with the spirit beings of nature. In… [Read More]
Books and Cuttings
Last weekend Rosmarie and I manned an HNH booth at the Native Plant Sale at Acadia University. Jodi DeLong was there as well and we picked up a shipment of her book Plants for Atlantic Gardens: Handsome and Hardworking Shrubs, Trees, and Perennials for the HNH shop. Having taken HNH’s sustainable landscape design class this… [Read More]
Staging Your Landscape for a Quicker and More Lucrative Sale
Last week, we spent a morning helping a client get ready for a real estate showing. These clients have a stunning property already and we were sent in to make sure that potential buyers would be suitably impressed by the landscape that the owners have invested in over the years. We weeded, freshened up the… [Read More]
New Seasons
On Saturday, April 14th, the Hodge Podge Community Garden celebrated the opening of its 2012 gardening season. Here’s a summary from one of the organizers, Cate de Vreede: The garden opening day was a huge success. All 20 of the beds have been assigned to gardeners for the 2012 growing season. There’s a mix of… [Read More]