Time for Planting

www.backyardgardener.com is a good website

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The website that I love and receive regular newsletters from is Greenwoodnursery.com

Good luck.

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Hi K.!
I don't know the website off hand, but there's a shop called Valley View Farms (kind of like Towson area I think). Every Sunday on channel 11 (WBAL) they do a Sunday Gardener segment & the woman that's on is from Valley View Farms & she seems extremely knowledgeable. You might try them. They sell everything from plants to planters, to ponds & other decorations for outdoors & indoors.

Good luck

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K.,
You must be at the end of your stint as a Navy wife if you are planning a garden and anticipating being around to enjoy the fruits of your labor (I am, too - also mother of 3!)
Hampton is way different from McLean where I am but try this site:
http://www.audubonathomenva.org/links.htm
It should also be able to give you ideas for landscaping that will attract birds, keep away deer, etc (my goals in gardening)
ask.com -- this is a good search engine as well.
Best of Luck -
~M.

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K.,
There is a really nice nursery called White Flower Farm http://www.whiteflowerfarm.com/ that has terrific info on their website about the where, when and what to plant. I recently moved from VA to MA, so a lot of the plants I was use to relying on don't do as well here as they did there. White Flower Farm's website has helped. The house we purchased in MA had tons of plants I was unsure of on the property, the White Flower Farm catalog helped a lot. A couple things I ordered from them (because I couldn't find the same thing in a local nursery) took a bit of a beating in shipping, but they were real quick to replace items that didn't recover promptly. They also have an e-mail newsletter that provides useful info. I've learned a bit from them.
Good Luck w/ your project!

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Visit www.springhillnursery.com. They have all sorts of garden ideas adn even garden kits that you can buy. However, they come as very tiny plants. If you're military and probably move quite a bit, I'd recommend using their gardens as a reference and buying the fully grown plants locally. It's more expensive but the Spring Hill plants won't look good for 3-5 years. The garden arangements are free in their catalog and online and they tell you your zone for planting and what gardens work best depending on sunlight. Happy planting!

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Hi K.,

A few years ago I joined the Arbor Day Foundation. Here's the website: http://www.arborday.org/ Of course there's tons of info on planting trees, but you can learn about flowers & shrubs also. When you join they send you a bunch of tiny saplings (at least they did when I joined a few years back) and you get big discounts on anything you order after that. Hope this helps!

M.

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