C. L. Fornari's Blog

If your peonies routinely get botrytis mold in the spring, it's likely that your weather is often cool and damp. In this case, you might want to spray the emerging foliage and buds with an organic fungicide every year as the plant grows. For an occasional browned bud...

If Mother Nature and The Green Man sent you a short message about what you are calling "bad soil," it might look something like this... Details from The Garden Lady, Saturday May 24th, 2025 In addition to discussing our propensity to classify our soils as "bad," I...

I love alliteration as much as anyone...it's a great tool for titles and marketing campaigns. But a catchy slogan can sell a concept that has little or mixed merit. So it is for "No Mow May." The idea here was to encourage people to let flowers bloom in their lawns...