What Are Your Flowers Telling You?

[slp-blabreplay] This is a replay of the live broadcast with Cindy Harrison and Gina from Keeler Gardens.  We talked about the nature of color in a garden, the meaning of specific flowers, and creating spaces based on the color, meaning, history, and emotion of plants.

Urban Farms and Edible Gardens with The Talking Farm

This is a replay of the live broadcast with Gina from Keeler Gardens, Ed Caplan, and special guest, Farmer Matt from The Talking Farm, an urban production farm in Skokie, IL. You can meet Matt at the Lurie Garden’s free adult lecture “Urban Agriculture Success Story: The Talking Farm” on Thursday, April 14, 2016 at the Lurie… Continue reading Urban Farms and Edible Gardens with The Talking Farm

Spring Preview with Bailey Nurseries

Welcome to Spring!  We have for you a video from Bailey Nurseries on some of their exciting new plants for 2016.  Not all of these are new cultivars, some are new offerings from Bailey Nurseries and some are new to the industry.  It begins with trees and shrubs then moves to perennials and edibles, and there… Continue reading Spring Preview with Bailey Nurseries

Flower and Garden Shows from the USA to the UK #KeelerGardens

This is a replay of the live broadcast with Gina from Keeler Gardens, Ed Caplan ✅☯☺, Richard Taylor, and Don Bristow Here are some of the shows we mentioned: 3/4-3/6/16 Minneapolis Home + Garden Show, Minneapolis, MN 3/4-3/6/16 Spring Home & Garden Show, Charlotte, NC 3/2 – 5/30/16 Epcot® International Flower & Garden Festival, Orlando,… Continue reading Flower and Garden Shows from the USA to the UK #KeelerGardens

Recipes You Can Grow

Gina was a guest on the Recipes You Can Grow Blab with @BG_garden

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Dr. Michael Dirr Talks Shrubs

I had the great fortune to attend the iLandscape show in early February and heard Dr. Michael Dirr speak on shrubs.  You can watch the video below, he is a hoot!  It is an amateur recording though you should be able to hear everything he says. Details on many of the cultivars he talks about… Continue reading Dr. Michael Dirr Talks Shrubs

End of Summer Report

It’s been a very full summer, and I have much to report!  Earlier this year I got involved with the Clark Park Advisory council on a project to create a memorial for The Chicago Park District’s Richard Clark Park.  Well, many designs, meeting, permits, and revisions later, the stone work is complete, installed and it… Continue reading End of Summer Report