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2024-05-05

Mount Vernon, Virginia – Spring Blooms in the Upper Flower Garden

The Upper Flower Garden at Mount Vernon is a spring treat with old-fashioned tulips, daffodils, and other bulbs intermingled with perennials and biennials. The beds are lined with short boxwood hedges and backed with walls and fences. Fruit trees provide part shade. A greenhouse and garden house add to the picturesque garden.

2024-04-07

A Classic English Garden – Longbarn, Kent

A springtime visit to Longbarn Garden in Kent England with Jenny Rose Carey Garden Author and Photographer to see snakeshead fritillaries and English Primroses

2024-02-01

From Seeds to Flowers

Learn how to grow flowers like poppies and marigolds by direct sowing straight into the garden. Plus some of Jenny Rose Carey’s favorites

2024-01-04

Towers to Flowers – Sissinghurst Castle Garden

Gatehouse arch as you enter Sissinghurst Castle Garden

2023-12-04

Garden Book Roundup – 2023

Jenny Rose Carey suggests 5 gardening books to read for 2023

2023-11-05

Gardening Reasons to be Thankful

There are many reasons to be thankful for your garden. Jenny Rose Carey shares a few of her own this Thanksgiving Season

2023-10-03

You Are Not Alone in Your Garden

‘No One Can Garden Alone’ Quote by Elizabeth Lawrence There is a lovely gardening quote by one of my gardening heroines, Elizabeth Lawrence. She says in the preface of ‘The Little Bulbs’ – ‘No one can garden alone’. If you are not gardening alone – who do you share your garden with? Obviously your family…

2023-09-02

Hot Colors are Here

Yay! Bright Pink If you have read this email a few times you will probably have seen that I like bright pink. The good news is that the world is catching up with me. I am happy to report that pink is everywhere. It makes me so happy. Unfortunately, I can’t take credit for the…

2023-08-01

The Scoop on Summer Staking

Summer staking keeps the garden looking fresh for the rest of the gardening year. There is a nice way to do it and a sloppy way. Learn what you can do to make your garden sail through summer and into fall

2023-07-10

Highlights from the Chelsea Flower Show 2023

What were the latest trend in garden design at the Chelsea Flower show 2023. Join author and educator – Jenny Rose Carey as she shares a few of her thoughts about this year’s show