Clark, Author at ProGardenTips

Contemporary garden with porcelain paving, a still water rill and corten steel planters

Gardens

30 Modern Garden Ideas for a Sleek Look

A modern garden is not a cold one. The best contemporary spaces are built on a few clean lines, a short list of materials, and plants

Soil

Types of Compost: Which One Should You Use?

Search for “types of compost” and you get two different questions answered at once. Half the results explain composting methods — aerobic, anaerobic, vermicomposting, bokashi. The

Dry garden with agave, lavender and blue fescue around a dry stream bed of pale cobbles

Gardens

25 Drought-Tolerant Garden Ideas for Dry Climates

Summers are getting longer and hosepipe bans are getting more common, and a garden built around thirsty lawns and bedding plants starts to look like a

Easy-care garden of ornamental grasses, sedum and evergreen shrubs in a gravel bed

Gardens

25 Low-Maintenance Garden Ideas That Look After Themselves

A low-maintenance garden is not a bare garden. The best examples are planted with intention and structured so that the plants do the work: suppressing weeds,

Wildlife garden with a small pond, wildflower meadow, native hedge and log pile

Gardens

25 Wildlife Garden Ideas to Help Nature Thrive

A wildlife garden is the rare kind of gardening where doing less often achieves more. The messy corner you have been meaning to clear is already

Trees

4 Pros And 4 Cons Of Japanese Maple Trees

Japanese maple (Acer palmatum) is one of the most widely planted ornamental trees in the world, and for good reason. Native to Japan, Korea, and China,

Trees

4 Pros And 4 Cons Of Bradford Pear Trees

Bradford pear (Pyrus calleryana ‘Bradford’) is a deciduous tree that reached near-ubiquity in American neighborhoods between the 1970s and 1990s. The USDA released the ‘Bradford’ cultivar

Trees

5 Pros And 4 Cons Of Magnolia Trees

Few trees stop traffic in spring the way a magnolia does. The genus Magnoliaceae contains some of the most primitive flowering plants on earth — magnolias

Companion planting diagram for peppers with French marigolds, basil, nasturtiums, and chives labeled

Plants

Companion Plants for Peppers: What Works and Why

Peppers are a magnet for aphids and thrips from the moment they go in the ground, and a plant this slow to establish cannot afford to

Sun-baked gravel garden with lavender, sea holly, verbascum spires and airy grasses

Gardens

25 Cottage-Style Gravel Garden Ideas

Gravel and cottage gardens might seem like opposites, yet they belong together. A gravel mulch keeps roots cool, suppresses weeds, and mimics the free-draining conditions that