old-fashioned hollyhocks plus gmo petunias, with joseph tychonievich
A NEIGHBOR’S CHERISHED hollyhocks were in bloom the other day, looking dreamy. And then I saw some serious flower porn [read more…]
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‘plants are the mulch’ and other nature-based design wisdoms, with claudia west
WHICH OF US doesn’t want to look out at a more resilient, manageable, and sustainable landscape–one that really works environmentally [read more…]
easy does it: why I’m grabbing snips versus a bigger pruner
CONFESSION: I haven’t used my pricey, famous-name pruning shears in weeks and weeks. No, the garden’s not an abandoned mess; [read more…]
powdery mildew, sowbug and pillbug infestation, fungicides on tomatoes, garlic bloat nematode: q&a with ken druse
MORE URGENT GARDEN QUESTIONS: In the July edition of Ken Druse’s and my monthly Q&A radio podcast, we tackled listener [read more…]
growing stewartia and other great small trees: q&a with ken druse
MORE URGENT GARDEN QUESTIONS: In the July edition of Ken Druse’s and my monthly Q&A radio podcast, we answered readers [read more…]
the monarch-milkweed arms race, with cornell’s anurag agrawal
UNTIL RECENTLY, if someone said “monarchs” I would probably free-associate and think “milkweed” and then “migration,” and all those elements [read more…]
the july garden chores
EACH JULY DAY is a stern little conversation or two (or 10): with myself, to push onward; with certain weeds [read more…]
bee balm: make room for monarda, with mt. cuba’s george coombs
ITS COMMON NAME–bee balm–tips us off that Monarda is a pollinator favorite, and though the name doesn’t also say so, [read more…]
birding by ear, with nathan pieplow: how to listen to what birds say
EVERY SPRING I promise to learn to recognize a few more voices—bird voices—to tune in more observantly to the members [read more…]
unripe tomatoes, japanese beetles, late-start vegetable gardens and more: q&a with ken druse
TOMATOES NOT RIPENING, or your trilliums sulked? Japanese beetles arriving? Didn’t even plant any vegetables yet and wondering if there [read more…]
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