Garden design
What is Adaptive Gardening?
Gardening can be enjoyed by anyone. Whether you’re navigating limited mobility, chronic pain, injury recovery, or simply want to make gardening less taxing on your body, Adaptive Gardening will help you achieve your gardening goals in a comfortable way.
Read MoreStarting A Gardening Journal
A journal can take on many forms; a collection of doodles, poems, a scrapbook, or an account of daily activities. This post will outline how to turn any blank notebook into a gardening journal to set you up for success.
Read MoreIs Your Perennial Garden Looking Too GREEN?
If your perennial garden is short on flowers at the end of the summer, there are several ways to quickly remedy the situation.
Read MoreUsing Your Landscape 8 Days a Week
Discover how to create outdoor living spaces filled with colorful plants on all sides of your house, not just in the backyard.
Read MorePlanting Over and Around Septic Fields
Read about which plants to grow on top of a septic field. Discover alternatives to lawns, and shallow rooted shrubs.
Read MoreStyle and Structure, 12 Months per Year
Plant evergreens now to add color, texture and visual interest 12 months per year. These give a garden what designers call “structure.”
Read MoreGardening Among Mature Trees
Mature trees are valuable to our environment and your property values. Here is how to create a garden around larger oaks, maples and pines.
Read MoreMid-Summer Landscape & Garden Fix-ups
As we head into July, know that a few quick fixes can give a tremendous lift to your yard and garden. Here are some photos showing how to improve several situations to create areas that make you happy into October. The gardens on Cape Cod tend to look fantastic through October, so any changes you…
Read MoreCreating A Water Feature ~ Ponds and Waterfalls
One of our missions at Hyannis Country Garden is to help people discover wellness. We help our customers to raise fresh, organically grown food and to use a diverse selection of plants that will bring them joy, outside and indoors. For almost 30 years our water gardening department has helped people to create landscape…
Read MoreFront Yard Seating
Most of us live in our backyards, and we tend to place decks, patios and seating areas there. Some are blessed to have farmer’s porches or other front-of-the-house seating, but this isn’t the norm. Yet on many properties, seating in the front yard should be considered. Many of our Cape Cod neighborhoods are attractive, and…
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