Wheeley Hall News Today

The Chelsea chop can be used on substantial clumps of garden phlox (Phlox paniculata), Monarda (bee balm), Heliopsis, Echinacea and similar plants.

One type, Epimedium (barrenwort, bishop’s hat), forms dense carpets of heart-shaped leaves and delicate flowers like mini columbines appear in spring.

Time to complete several major vegetable seedings and set up lengths of fencing to support later plantings

Changes in store after a review of past season

Gardening offers an easy, practical opportunity to practise mindfulness in focusing on a single task at a time.

Earlier than usual heat waves, hot summers and long periods of drought are calling for dramatic adaptations to long-held gardening practices.

The simplest way to determine the best timing for planting bulbs in the fall is to track the weather and plant when there is a clear pattern of cooling, damper conditions.

First full day of autumn is a time of transition

All through the summer, raccoons left my lawn alone. Then, early this month, they were suddenly back digging up the turf. Is there an explanation for this?

Heat and drought: I’m planning already for managing these increasingly daunting challenges.