The Foolishness of Things
A gentle reminder to stop and enjoy a cup of tea. It's important and this explains why: The Foolishness of Things
Serenity in the Garden
Jan Johnsen's garden blog. I talk about praise-worthy plants, glorious gardens, and offer landscape design and gardening ideas and more.
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Music for the Eye - Curves in the Landscape
I wrote this post in my new substack 'Jan Johnsen's Gardentopia' - go here to read it and see the photos: https://janjohnsen.substack.com/p/music-for-the-eye?s=w
I AM MOVING TO SUBSTACK
Life moves on and so do I. I am going from being a Blogger to a 'Substacker'! Please follow me there: Go to Jan Johnsen's Gardentopia and please subscribe. Every week I will post something of interest to garden lovers and garden designers. I started my new substack with a great quote. It is why I share all that I do. Please follow me on Substack. "The world is moving into a phase when landscape…
Hip Hip Hooray for Rose Hips!
rose hips photo by Jan Johnsen Allow your roses to form hips. Did you know that, like many plants that produce fruit, the formation of rose hips is a signal to the rose to go dormant for the season? from Monrovia - Japanese rose Rose hips provide wonderful color in the garden and are a good source of vitamin C for birds in the fall and winter. They are one of the highest plant sources of Vitamin…
The Glorious Sunflower - the Fourth Sister in a Native American Garden
In one of my earlier blog posts I wrote about the Native Americans' Three Sisters Garden (corn, beans and squash ) but I neglected to tell you of the Fourth Sister ...a very important member of this family! This is from Hubpages : "Fourth Sister, didn't look anything like her other sisters, although she was as tall and as slender as First Sister (corn) . That seemed fair to all, because Third…
2021 Perennial Plant of the Year - Lesser Calamint (Deer Resistant)
Montrose White Calamint from Rare Roots I wrote this post years ago and now, in 2021, Lesser Calamintha has been named 2021Perennial Plant of the Year... So here is my post on it and my prediction that - someday - it will be recognized. #prescient The thing to do is PLANT FOR THE BEES . So if you join me on that important bandwagon I suggest you plant - Dwarf Calamint 'Montrose White' ( Calamintha…
My Garden Tip Interview with Christy Wilhelmi of Gardenerd
Last week I was interviewed by Christy Wilhelmi on her podcast for Gardenerd. She has a great website and says that Gardenerd is designed for people who have a healthy sense of humor about their obsession with organic gardening, and who have a thirst for knowledge. Christy Wilhelmi - host of Gardenerd Her audio interviews feature a wide variety of garden experts and are quite wonderful. I am…
The Famed Yellow Magnolias Bred in Ossining N.Y.
'Elizabeth' Magnolia was bred by Brooklyn Botanic Garden in Ossining, NY. I love yellow-flowering magnolias. The cover of a Garden Design Magazine features one and it makes my heart skip a beat. The Brooklyn Botanic Garden introduced the yellow-flowering magnolia to the world. BBG launched the breeding program in 1953 at its R&D facility, the Kitchawan Research Center, in Ossining, New York (the…
My new book, Floratopia, is Out Now!
My new book Floratopia is out! I am so happy to finally be able to share flower garden design ideas with everyone. I have been working with annual and perennial flowers in all my landscape projects for decades and yet I wrote about everything but flowers. Odd. Well, that has now been corrected. I have amassed a collection of flower tips accompanied by my photos and categorized them in 6 sections…
ZOOM TALK - GARDENTOPIA June 9 - 6 pm est
ZOOM TALK - June 9 at 6 pm EST Sponsored by the Los Angeles Association of Professional Landscape Designers - Go here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gardentopia-with-jan-johnsen-tickets-106030600380 Join award-winning landscape designer and garden writer Jan Johnsen to discuss the concepts in her latest book, Gardentopia. About this Event “Gardentopia is that rare marriage of the art of landscaping…