The Providential Gardener

Planning Landscaping

As usual, The Garden Guys had an interesting and useful show this morning on WHJJ (920AM) from 8am to 10am. One topic they discussed was how to make the most of professional landscaping services, a great topic for contemplation in... Read more →

Time to Sign up for the New England Grows! Convention

Check out the website of the February 6-8 convention, New England Grows! This Boston "green industry" convention in its 15th year has an earlybird registration discount and a lot of folks could afford to go. More than 700 exhibitors will... Read more →

Rhode Island Nursery & Landscape Association

Still missing from The Providential Gardener are several important groups, organizations, and government agencies. Today I am adding the Rhode Island Nursery & Landscape Association, which has a new website. For URI's 100th anniversary this association donated the Learning Landscape... Read more →

The Garden Clubs and Habitat for Humanity

Did you know that The Rhode Island Federation of Garden Clubs has a "Growing Partnership" with Habitat for Humanity? Local garden clubs work with Habitat for Humanity chapters to plan and plant a sustainable garden for new Habitat homes in... Read more →

Rain Gardens

The [Chesapeake] Bay Weekly published a great article in 2002 about the benefits of rain gardens and how to create them. Even in droughts homes with rain gardens don't need to water. They clean the pollutants out of the water... Read more →

Rain Gardens

Now that Providential Gardeners have endured the downpours of last October and the past week that flooded basements and yards and turned streets into rivers, it's time to consider rain gardens. A demonstration rain garden has been installed at North... Read more →