Garden Care and Tips Archives - Heritage Museums & Gardens

6 07, 2023

Where Have All the Flowers Gone? And Yet Another Chapter

2023-07-06T12:23:44-04:00July 6th, 2023|Categories: About Heritage, Blog, Garden Care and Tips, Gardens and Plants, Hydrangea|

Where Have All the Flowers Gone – and Yet Another Chapter in 2023 Mal’s Corner – CCHS Spring 2023 Newsletter As most of you know, I do follow the weather patterns fairly closely and am especially concerned with major deviations, particularly the sudden and severe cold events with temperature [...]

14 03, 2023

Spring Garden Planning

2023-03-14T13:01:07-04:00March 14th, 2023|Categories: About Heritage, Blog, Garden Care and Tips, Gardens and Plants|

Garden Planning By: Les Lutz, Director of Horticulture March is such a hopeful month. There are signs all through the garden that winter is slowly losing its grip on the landscape and spring is starting to show itself. The Witch-hazels are finishing their late winter show and buds are [...]

15 08, 2022

Monarch Butterflies

2024-01-25T10:58:09-05:00August 15th, 2022|Categories: About Heritage, Blog, Garden Care and Tips, Gardens and Plants|

Monarch Butterflies Monarch Butterflies Need Our Help! Tips on how to support these iconic creatures By: Iris Clearwater, Senior Gardener When I was a child learning how to draw or color a butterfly, I would automatically draw a monarch. These were the most common and iconic butterflies [...]

2 08, 2022

Helping Your Garden Through a Drought

2024-01-25T14:42:45-05:00August 2nd, 2022|Categories: About Heritage, Blog, Garden Care and Tips, Gardens and Plants|

Helping Your Garden Through a Drought By: Les Lutz, Director of Horticulture The drought we are in is serious. The State of Massachusetts has declared the Cape to be in a Level 1 – Mild Drought. I might argue that we are actually in a worse situation [...]

5 07, 2022

Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

2024-01-25T15:44:13-05:00July 5th, 2022|Categories: About Heritage, Blog, Garden Care and Tips, Gardens and Plants, Hydrangea|

As New Englanders, we are well-versed in the constant change of the seasons. Living in this part of the planet, we are treated to a wide range of weather, and we have the opportunity to see how one season can affect another. For example, we know that [...]

12 05, 2022

Japanese Skimmia

2024-04-11T11:17:01-04:00May 12th, 2022|Categories: About Heritage, Blog, Garden Care and Tips, Gardens and Plants|

Why Doesn't Everybody Grow Japanese Skimmia? By: Iris Clearwater, Senior Gardener For the entire month of April, every time I turned the corner by the labyrinth, I was overwhelmed with a heady, exquisite perfume, resembling jasmine. It took me a while to locate the source to be a [...]

26 04, 2022

Fertilizing Hydrangeas: Keep It Simple

2024-04-11T11:08:59-04:00April 26th, 2022|Categories: About Heritage, Blog, Garden Care and Tips, Gardens and Plants, Hydrangea|

Fertilizing Hydrangeas - Apply the KISS Approach By: Mal Condon, Curator of Hydrangeas One of the most common concerns for the home gardener regarding hydrangeas is fertilizing – how much, when and how? There is a lot of information out there on fertilizers, but luckily, I have found [...]

9 09, 2021

Pollinator Tea Garden

2022-02-10T11:20:50-05:00September 9th, 2021|Categories: Blog, Garden Care and Tips, Gardens and Plants, Now at Heritage|

Pollinator Tea Garden: Provide for native bees and use the leaves for amazing teas! Iris Clearwater, Senior Gardener There are many things that you can do to support both your own health and wellness, and that of our native butterflies and bees populations, which we need to keep [...]

13 07, 2021

A Stellar Year For Hydrangea Macrophylla

2024-01-24T13:41:23-05:00July 13th, 2021|Categories: Blog, Down to Earth, Garden Care and Tips, Gardens and Plants, Hydrangea, News and Media|

Hydrangea Season: 2021 Possibly the Best Year Yet The stars have aligned this year for our favorite summer plant, Hydrangea macrophylla. Thanks to many factors (mostly weather) this is shaping up to be one of the best years for flowering that I can remember. I’ve lived on the [...]

7 06, 2021

Tree Peonies

2024-03-25T15:12:48-04:00June 7th, 2021|Categories: Blog, Garden Care and Tips|

The biggest bloom of June Tree peonies are the aristocrats of the garden. I’ve always felt that they’re the pinnacle of gardening and the plant that many gardeners try to grow, and many ultimately fail. For those that don’t know tree peonies, they’re worthy of attention. For [...]