Betty Greene Garden Design

06/09/2022

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04/03/2020

More good advice from Kennedy’s Country Gardens.

Forsythia is a favorite shrub in the spring landscape with its cheery yellow flowers that bloom before most other trees and shrubs. Forsythia bloom is one of the first hopeful signs of spring, which is undoubtedly why it is so widely planted.

03/24/2020

03/13/2020

It’s a definite: the virtual events are here to stay for the moment! You can derive so much great information from very capable practitioners.

Go Native at the 8th Annual Gardening Green Expo! 2020 Gardening Green Expo Saturday, March 28, 2020 10:00 am–4:00 pm Kennedy’s Country Gardens, Scituate Think spring and mark your calendar for Gardening Green Expo. The theme for this year is Go Native! Populations of birds, bees, butterflies, a...

02/28/2020

Some of these are very doable.

Creative garden features you can DIY for free using twigs, sticks, and branches. Ideas include trellises and plant supports as well as garden artwork

02/28/2020

Critically endangered hummingbird eggs are smaller than jellybeans, here’s how to spot and protect them: “Hummingbird eggs are tiny, about the size of jelly beans! Please remember to carefully check for nests before you trim trees and shrubs,” the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently urged ...

02/10/2020

𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀, 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗱𝗲𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆𝗯𝗲𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗳𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝘀! Read more...

"Pollination occurs when pollen is moved within flowers or carried from flower to flower by wind, water, or pollinating animals. Almost 90% of all flowering plants rely on animal pollinators for fertilization, and about 200,000 species of animals act as pollinators. Of those, hundreds are hummingbirds, bats, and small mammals such as mice. The rest are insects like beetles, flies, bees, ants, wasps, butterflies and moths.

Most people are familiar with the flowering annual and perennials in their flower beds that attract bees and other pollinators. They may be less familiar with the fact that bees forage for pollen and nectar up in the tree canopy. With their profusion of flowers, trees are a convenient food source for bees and other pollinators.

Trees densely covered with thousands of flowers give pollinators an abundant source of nectar and pollen in one place. Foraging efficiency for the bees is beneficial as it requires less energy searching for further food sources and reduces stress. Bees rely on food sources throughout the year. Trees that bloom early in spring give a boost to bees that have depleted their stores of honey during the winter. Summer-flowering trees provide a meal of nectar and pollen during the hottest months of the year after spring flowers have bloomed."

For more info about the scientist authors, talented artist Natalya Zahn, or to download the poster (now out of print), visit https://www.pollinator.org/shop/poster-2016.

~MB

01/19/2020

Once considered a nuisance, more and more “weeds” are making their way into the kitchen and onto the menus of high-end restaurants Farmers and gardeners are giving up fighting many of the invasive plants they once considered “weeds,” and selling them to chefs, CSAs and health food stores, ma...

01/15/2020

Yay, seeds are here!

12/14/2019

Some places in the world such as Nicoya in Costa Rica, Icaria in Greece, Okinawa in Japan Sardinia in Italy, and Loma Linda in California are known for their longevity. Dan Buettner studied these places where its residents live the longest.