How Does Your Garden Grow?

How? With April Garden Tips from the New York Botanical Garden, of course!

Daffodil Hill at the New York Botanical Garden

You will notice the link takes you to gardening tips for May. This is not an error; it is a function of the differing geographic climates of these United States. As the NYBG tells us,

These gardening tips are applicable for the southeastern New York region - USDA Plant Hardiness Zones 6a and 6b ... If you live in a more southerly plant hardiness zone, you can start gardening earlier in the season ...

We opined on the USDA Plant Hardiness Zones here, but the short of it is that we are in a 'more southerly plant hardiness zone,' generally zones 7-8 depending on your location. Hence, April in Virginia and North Carolina will approximate May in New York. So, feel free to use these helpful garden tips with indiscrete abandon - if that is your wont.

And while you're on their site, check out some of the NYBG landscape photos. Here are just a few of their 50(!) marvelous collections of flowers and gardens:

Daylilly Walk

Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden

Nancy Bryan Luce Herb Garden

Arthur and Janet Ross Conifer Arboretum