Doug Green

Greenhouses Greenhouses for the backyard garden and Q&A forms

Free Seminars Free garden seminars where you get to choose the courses

Organic All organic all the time with Q&A forms

Pictures Garden pictures from Doug and readers in contests and sharing

Landscaping You Can Do This

Garden Plant Reviews

We all want to know what's good and what's not-so-good. Here are the results of some of my plant trials and a place for you to comment on them as well.

You can even add your own variety reviews of plants you've growing in your garden that aren't listed yet.

As with a lot of this site - I'm collecting old reviews and pages and putting them all here in one spot. I hope you'll have a bit of patience as I rebuild this area to make it really useful.

garden design

Echinacea and Perovskia

Annual Flowers

My annual flower reviews and a place for you to add your own comments and reviews

Rose Reviews

My rose plant reviews from my trial gardens and a place for you to comment and add your reviews and favorites

Shrub Reviews

Reviews of shrubs from my garden and a place for you to comment and add your own review

Perennial Reviews

Perennial flower reviews from my own garden and a place for you to add your favorites and comment

New Articles

Feb 7, 2012

pole pruners

Pole pruners are invaluable for trimming the smaller branches on trees and for cleaning up fruit trees - here's what to look for

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Jan 30, 2012

Plantskydd Deer Repellent Review

There are several ways I could have written this review but I decided, in the end, that brutal honesty was the best course of action here. Sigh... So

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Jan 24, 2012

Fiskars" small snippers".

Fiskars,in my opinion are some of the best.If you take the time to get the right one for the job,you won't be disappointed.My absolutely favorite are the

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Jan 17, 2012

Marigold 'Bonanza Deep Orange'

Over the past 30 years, I've grown just about every Marigold on the market, either for my nursery or for my own pleasure. From the really tall to the

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Jan 13, 2012

Begonia Solenia 'Velvet Red' Review

Last spring, I found a begonia advertised as being able to be grown in full sun. Right! I said to myself, we'll see about that. So I paid way too much

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Jan 12, 2012