Category Archives: Bob’s Blog

For over 30 years Bob LaHoff has cultivated helpful and useful horticultural info to share with his fellow gardeners.

Name Dropping

High above the clouds, sitting here at 36,000 feet I became inspired to write about [...]

“The Father of American Landscape Architecture”

Picking up where I left off last month … Frederick Law Olmsted. Touted as “the [...]

Road Trip

Road Trip   One of my life’s ambitions has always been to drive across country.  [...]

A Landscape to DIY For

A Landscape to DIY For Today’s television certainly has its variety. From the over the [...]

Summer Planters

  Today everyone wants their dollar to go farther. Our current economic crisis has encouraged [...]

Cotton Candy This Fall?

     Often I get up on my soapbox and preach about planting trees that are [...]

Is There Ink (Enk) in Your Garden?

Is There Ink (Enk) in Your Garden?     Years ago, when I became engaged, [...]

The Unfolding of Spring

The Unfolding of Spring After months of looking at snow and ice and weathering below [...]

Paperbush

Paperbush   One of the more exciting opportunities afforded to me during the winter is [...]

Leather Leaves

  Several years ago, while attending a trade show, I was asked what some of [...]

Winter Gardens

Winter Gardens Between the outstanding fall colors of deciduous trees and the early spring blooms [...]

Maritime Colours

  October of this year I had an opportunity to take something off my life [...]