Heather Thomas
Tips for All-Season Color: Add "Carryover" Plants that Fill the Gaps
Want to keep your garden blooming all season long? These 14, long-flowering, season-extenders bloom at just the right time to help you...
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Heather Thomas
3 min read
Tips for All-Season Color: Plant Multi-Season Cultivars
How selecting a range of early, mid, and late-blooming cultivars can help you to create continuously blooming flower borders.
Heather Thomas
5 min read
Tips for All-Season Color: Convertible Containers
Tips for All-Season Color - Part Two: Convertible Containers As a busy working mom, I've developed many time-saving tips over the years...
Heather Thomas
4 min read
Tips For All-Season Color: Companion Planting
Four Tips for All-Season Color: Part One Have you ever wandered around your garden and been enchanted by a section filled with beautiful...
Heather Thomas
4 min read
The Season Finale: August - October, 2023
Tour the Garden - Part Three: August through October As the season hits the home stretch, fatigue sets in. Gardening in August takes...
Heather Thomas
4 min read
The Season Continues: May - July, 2023
Tour the 2023 Garden - Part two: May through July, 2023. My excitement builds as the April tulip garden fades and warmer days arrive. No...
Heather Thomas
4 min read
The Season Begins: April, 2023
Part one of a three-part recap of the 2023 gardening season at Cape Cottage Garden April at Cape Cottage Garden is a joyful tribute to...
Heather Thomas
6 min read
Get to Know Cape Cottage Garden
I recently sat down with Jane Murphy, President of the Garden Club of Princeton, who asked me ten questions about Cape Cottage Garden. 1)...
Heather Thomas
1 min read
Ready to Enjoy Spring? You're Invited to Visit the Tulip Garden on April 29th, 2023
Last year, I opened my central New Jersey tulip garden to friends and neighbors for the first time. I tossed out an email or two and...
Heather Thomas
2 min read
Creating Color Combinations With Tulips
My color blueprints for a beautiful spring garden We have been unseasonably warm this week with temperatures peaking at 80 degrees here...
Heather Thomas
6 min read
One Container, Two Seasons
Let's look at how you can make one container last from Thanksgiving to Mother's Day.
Heather Thomas
5 min read
Six Ways I Prep my Garden for Winter
Follow along as I prep my zone 6b, New Jersey garden for winter. Despite my protests, winter has a funny habit of arriving in my garden...
Heather Thomas
2 min read
Three Tips to Get Your Mophead Hydrangeas to Bloom Beautifully
A look at how I get my Hydrangea macrophylla 'Endless Summer®' shrubs to bloom beautifully in my New Jersey garden. With their blue or...
Heather Thomas
6 min read
How I Created A Spring Paradise
Go behind the scenes as I create a spring paradise filled with thousands of daffodils and tulips.
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