• Learn Planting Design in my January Class

    Make winter fun! Join me in my January class and learn planting design. Register at http://www.MassHort.org Designing the Winter Landscape When: Wednesday January 17 & 24, 2018 from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM Where: The Gardens at Elm Bank – Cheney Room Maria von Brincken will help you design an outdoor space that uses texture, color,… Read more

  • An Arbor Creates Magic

    Today the arbor was installed. Instant magic moving towards this garden’s completion. Read more

  • Fall Container Planting Ideas

    It’s the time of year we swap out summer annuals and create a harvest or fall theme.  These fall container planting ideas show arrangements that carry past Thanksgiving in the Northeast. Plants include ornamental kale ( both large and small varieties) , pansies,  a “grass”, that won’t die at the first hard frost, and a mini… Read more

  • Transplanted Plants Make a Garden

    New gardens and planting borders from old. Transplanting makes instant new gardens. Call this a sustainable practice or  ” recycle, reuse” !  Overgrown foundation plants at the front door get a new life looking good!  Plants from making space for a new addition construction avoid the compost pile. Large Rhodies and the like, and even 12′ -16′… Read more

  • Speaking “Great Garderners Series”

    Happy to be here in Falmouth ME to speak tonight! Read more

  • Catch my Talk Tomorrow!

    Speaking tomorrow to the CT Master Gardener Association Annual Symposium! My talk “Classic Vertical Gardening: Vines that Flower up and around” highlights the structures that vines grow on and the rooms they create. Choice ornamental vines will be highlighted. Looking forward to it! ctmga.org – CMGA for more information. Read more