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Layered Gardens for Outdoor Living Spaces Bringing Serenity
Garden design for outdoor living spaces creates Zen-like serenity in shade, full sun or everything in between. The question is which word in that first sentence resonates with you. Pick the word and then your on your way. Outdoor, living, Zen, serenity, shade, sun, garden, design, spaces. Which word you choose begins your personal journey. […]
Garden Management: Neglecting The Trees, Gardens and General Landscape Wastes Money
Garden management saves time, increases value and improves quality of life. Neglecting your gardens, trees and plants can lead to tremendous waste in money and time (growing time). If you know me you know my passion for creating the sustainable growing environment. In an ever increasing contrived gardening world the long term goal has to […]
Springtime Paradise In Danger (Restoration of Hydrangeas and Butterfly Bush)
Springtime Paradise In Danger, focusing on restoration of Hydrangeas and Buddelia (Butterfly Bush), brings us out of this 2014 early springtime, below freezing temperatures, and nearing the end of Spring. In all my years I have never seen such a severe dieback on Hydrangeas around long Island in New York. There have been other dramatic […]
Garden Survival 101, Protecting Against The Next Hurricane Sandy
Designing and managing your gardens and landscapes to survive future Hurricanes like Sandy should be the new order of the day. Engaging design forethought and setting proper maintenance goals so homeowners will have greater understanding of what it will cost to care for their property, if they aren’t doing all the work themselves. The reality […]
Learning From The Professional (Tutoring Students) The Art of Garden Management
Learning from the professional, the art of Garden Management. Email or call today to be a part of my world. Homeowners for 10 years have benefitted from my experience, knowledge and passion for garden design, garden management and garden long term development. I have NOW created the ALL NEW Tutoring Program for homeowners and developing […]
Letting Your Long Island, NY Garden Grow Can Cost You
Letting your Long Island, New York garden grow can cost you a lot of money if you don’t consider how to properly manage the number of plants, type of plants and where you are planting. If you believe you have accomplished the first management task with good choices the second and final consideration needs to […]
Gardening Questions? Ask The Expert Is Coming To Plant With Me This Fall
Gardening Questions? Ask The Expert Is Coming To Plant With Me This Fall along with a comprehensive garden management program for 2014. OMG did this post have to begin this way? Unfortunately the answer is yes followed by an exclamation point! Here on Long Island, located east of New York City, homeowners the past […]
Plantwithme.com Articles About To Be Posted
New Articles to challenge your gardening senses. I have been under cover for the past seven months and am back to expand your gardening and landscape horizons. Get ready for a new direction that will reopen old doors and present new doors to be ventured through. I look forward to everyone joining me as we […]
Northeastern USA Gardening For The Winter Landscape 2012 Adapting to Nature
Adapting your gardening and thinking for planetary climate change is critical to helping our community filter polution and our planet breath. With countries around the world industrializing and joining the international arena with goods and services the need for planting, managing and maintaining the remaining trees, natural forests and community green spaces will be critical in the fight against […]
Restoring Those Tree & Plant Specimens That Seem To Be Hopeless
Northeastern plant and tree specimens ravaged by Hurricane Sandy need not be discarded so quickly. The hope for restoration and the renewal of life when all seems lost needs to be maintained. In the United State Of America over the past year we have had a number of interesting weather events that have challenged our […]
Dreaming The Garden Is The Beginning Of Having The Garden. Dig Deep
Dreaming the garden is the beginning of having the garden. Dig deep into that which you want and know that the possibility of that want has a reality somewhere. The challenges within the illusion, that not many choose to face, are the sacrifices that must be made to bring the fantasy, the dream from the […]
Sod Verses Seed To Create The Lawn Of Your Dreams
Lawns: What’s the value of laying sod verses dropping seed? This and so many other gardening and landscaping questions should be approached strictly from an economic standpoint. What is the cost over a 10 year period? To answer this question there is some information needed so an understanding of value is created. Sod comes from […]
Learn From The Expert: Garden Design, Garden Management, Pruning and Plant Care
Classes for Gardening and Landscaping in the Northeastern USA. How do I manage and maintain my gardens for longterm care and value? This is the ultimate inquiry that Michael Rosenberg @ Plant With Me works to achieve every day, out and about in his and his clients gardens and landscapes. Hi everyone. It has been […]
Gardens: Places Of Meditation, Reflecting On The Lives We Choose To Live
What is a Meditation Garden? In simple terms meditation gardens are places of worship. I don’t mean to offend anyone but truth be told the middle of the forest is a meditation garden. You could debate language and ideas all day. Solitude with the sounds and smells of things not man made are generally considered […]
How Gardens Grown And Develop All Depends On The Human Touch
How do gardens develop is my topic of the hour. To keep this article clear and clean I will lay out some focus questions that everyone needs to consider before addressing how gardens develop. For the purpose of this article Gardens will be defined as, deliberately chosen areas with plants in and or around said areas. Now […]
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