Like many others, we’ve had to cancel our Open Garden Conservancy Tours. While we are saddened we won’t be able to greet you all in person and guide you through our garden, it is our pleasure to bring you a compilation of photos from tours …
While strolling the woodland paths of Sleepy Cat Farm, it is apparent to me now the importance of creating an understory layer to further enhance the experience of the garden.
One of the activities in our greenhouse during the Winter season is plant propagation. Plant propagation is the process of growing new plants from a variety of sources: seeds, cuttings, and other plant parts. Many plants can be propagated from divisions, made by removing a section of the old plant. There often is not enough above ground material to create more than one new plant.
Horticulturist, Alan Gorkin acknowledges a mass ripening of Sleepy Cat Farm’s Meyer Lemon crop: One of my first assignments as Horticulturist at Sleepy Cat Farm, nearly 10 years ago, was to acquire 8 Meyer Lemon trees for Italian terra cotta urns that would adorn the …
As the weather cools and plant processes begin to slow down, many of us resign ourselves to the “wait until next year” philosophy to beautify those problem areas. I for one, am quite guilty of that. Lately however, with all the rain we have had, I have …
Sorry to put up two woody plant posts in a row, but our Magnolia tree is too pretty to pass up! Ashe magnolia is a small understory tree with the largest leaves and flowers of any North American tree. This Southern native has sweetly scented, thick …
This has been one of the most unusual Springs I can remember. Taken as a whole, the weather has been rather cool and wet, which has set back planting tender annuals by a couple of weeks. Luckily we have been able to utilize the greenhouse to …