Crafts Archives - Growing With Plants

Training a Tree Wisteria

May 8, 2012

A tree wisteria is simply a wisteria vine, trained to grow as a tree – essentially, it is simply a wisteria standard or a…

Up-Cycling A Vintage Cooler into an Alpine Trough

April 22, 2012

A VINTAGE METAL COOLER IS PLANTED WITH HIGH-ELEVATION MOUNTAIN TOP PLANTS Here is a fun way to both recycle a vintage mid-century insulated metal…

Botanical Wreaths from the Garden

December 13, 2011

A WALK AROUND THE GARDEN, CAN RESULT IN UNUSUAL MATERIALS FOR HOME-MADE WREATHS. THIS ALPINE WREATH WAS CONSTRUCTED WITH CLIPPINGS FROM ALPINE DAPHNE SPECIES,…

Topiary and Pleached Potted Plants

July 19, 2011

PLEACHING A TINY HEDGE OF PINK-FLOWERED ROSEMARY, MAKES AN INTERESTING DESIGN ELEMENT FOR A DECK OR TERRACE Mid summer is a great time to…

Planting Containers – Cool Specimen Plants

March 23, 2011

There is nothing quite like a tall massive container of Cyperus papyrus. This weekend we picked up some 4 inch pots of a very…

Garden Folly

July 8, 2010

I have so many plant show ribbons, that fill my closets and potting shed, which I just adore because of their wierd, innocent, naive…

Holiday topiary get a trim for the new year

December 29, 2009

The art of training shrubs and trees into standard topiary shapes, comes and goes with the fashion of the moment, just as bonsai become…

Rediscovering the Craft of Berry Bowls

December 24, 2008

A Vintage advertisement for ‘Berry Bowls’ from a HORTICULTURE Magazine, circa 1957 Born and raised in New England, I had grown accustomed to the…

Pleaching Hornbeams

April 21, 2006

This week I pruned the pleached Hornbeam hedge along the stone walk that leads out to the woods behind the house. I also decided…