Seems like we should be talking more about early summer blooms, but here we are on Cinco de Mayo, and it still feels and looks like early spring in The Gateway Gardener gardens. Here’s some of what I found in bloom among the raindrops. Click on any photo to view and click on the forward or backward arrows to move
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A key to having handsome houseplants that are healthy and vigorous, plants that enhance their surroundings, is to choose from among those known to be comparatively care-free. By Barbara Perry Lawton [This article was first published in The Gateway Gardener January/February 2011 issue.] A key to having handsome houseplants that are healthy and vigorous, plants that enhance their surroundings, is
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The holidays approach and real winter gives time to reflect and enjoy the lovely Thanksgiving holiday. (This article was first published in The Gateway Gardener November 2009 issue.) By Joyce Driemeyer Having lived in a part of the world for a brief period (S.E.Asia),where there was not much visible change of seasons but only hot and hotter, I have always
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How about a Tropical Island Christmas? It can be a lot of fun to remember your favorite tropical destination, then apply a Christmas theme. (This article was first published in The Gateway Gardener Nov/Dec 2011 issue) Text and Photos By Ellen Barredo How about a Tropical Island Christmas? It can be a lot of fun to remember your favorite tropical
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I like to use indoor foliage to provide the fall seasonal color. (This article was first published in the Gateway Gardener November 2010 issue.) By Ellen Barredo I find the calendar once again flipped open to the month of November and again the yearly thought crosses my mind …Decorate for the Harvest. With the kids long grown I seldom haul
» Read moreI took a stroll around our Glendale, Missouri, neighborhood on October 16 to enjoy and photograph the peak fall color. Despite the heat and drought, the colors were out in all their glory, especially the sugar maples! Click on any photo to view and click on the forward or backward arrows to move through the photo gallery. After the last
» Read moreWill we get fall colors or not? It’s hard to say this year with the heat and drought. But there’s still a lot to see in the fall garden. I strolled through the Gateway Gardener gardens on October 3rd, and here’s what I found–some stragglers from summer and some classic fall bloomers! Click on any photo to view and click
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(This article was first published in The Gateway Gardener October 2012) Text and Photos by Ellen Barredo You ask…What is Kokedama? Well Kokedama is the Japanese art form of enclosing a plant’s root mass in moss. Kokedama means “moss ball”. This trend is growing and can be quite fun. A current spin off of the Kokedama trend is String Gardening.
» Read moreIt’s hot. It’s dry. It’s HOT and DRY! Yet despite the record heat and drought, a quick stroll through The Gateway Gardener’s garden reveals some real troopers surviving and thriving (yes, with a little watering). Here are a few. Click on any photo to view and click on the forward or backward arrows to move through the photo gallery. After
» Read moreby Steffie Littlefield (This article first appeared in The Gateway Gardener August 2009 issue.) Now it’s hot and dry just like every summer in St. Louis and you look at your perennial border and a few sturdy souls stand out. You know the ones that don’t have wilted singed foliage, who still produce fresh flowers, whose color hasn’t faded to
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