Sarah Baranoff's profile

I work at a public high school in Chicago. We don\'t have a football field, or a track, or a baseball diamond. Instead, the green space behind our building is a garden. Let me take you on a little tou

My yard is sunny in the front, and mostly shaded in the back. I have three large trees on my property - a maple in the front, and in the back and elm and something else that I don\'t know what is. I a

I love to be welcomed by flowers after a hard day of work.

Our Summer has been quite cool which means the flowers are lasting longer. My morning maintainance of deadheading helps the gardens have continuous blooms. This is my fulltime hobby and I love being o

Almost 3 years now we\'ve been working on this yard. Its 1/2 acre and still have a ways to go.

The hill behind our house is quite steep and is basically made up of sand. When I started landscaping it, I had to give each bush and plant its own enormous planting hole amended with lots of compost.

My family and I live in rural North Carolina, so I thought a cottage style/mixed border garden would blend in best with our surroundings. I\'ve been gardening since 1994, and have tried to create fo