Category spring flowers

Heavy ice and snow have created a great deal of winter shrub damage across the country

How to Bring Shrubs Safely into Spring After a Deep Freeze

How to Revive Shrubs After Winter Winter can be brutal on shrubs. Deep freezes, rapid temperature swings, and prolonged periods of frozen…

American BioChar Company
February 15, 2026

The Small Meadow is a painting by the French Impressionist Alfred Sisley. Spring blooms of tulips daffodils hyacinths and ephemerals inspire many artists, including you in your garden.

Ahh Spring…Ephemerals, Tulips, Daffodils, Crocus

“The Small Meadows in Spring, By” is an oil painting by Alfred Sisley created around 1881. The beauty of spring has inspired…

American BioChar Company
May 13, 2025

Laurie walking the bog and finding anaerobic conditions that create peat over thousands of years.

Bogs, Nutrients, Sphagnum Moss, and Carnivorous Plants

Wandering along the boardwalk that traversed the sphagnum moss bog, I excitedly called out to my husband, “Hey look! Here’s a bunch…

American BioChar Company
May 4, 2020

The soil food web includes microoragnisms invisible to the naked eye and larger critters like earthworms and insects. All necessary for a fully functioning soil ecosystem.

Exploring Earthworms and Soil Compaction

Walking to my car this morning, I was forced to step over “drowned earthworms” scattered on the sidewalk and driveway, following the…

American BioChar Company
May 8, 2019

In spring we often miss the blooms of ephemerals but these Mayapples will remain and we will see the apples until the woodland critters get them.

All Natural Organic Fertilizer Will Help Your Garden Grow

When it comes to all-natural organic fertilizer, VITAL Blend is what you need. Although fertilizing your landscaping is probably the last thing…

American BioChar Company
February 1, 2018