MARIANNE WILLBURN appreciates the bold and often vertical element that some favorite tropical plants add to her temperate garden. But maybe the best of all..

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SPRING IS ALMOST HERE, even up north where I garden, and with it the combination of exhilaration and overwhelm that the combined gorgeous botanical unfolding..

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THE DAYS ARE longer and the light is strengthening—triggers that don’t just start to wake up our plants, indoors and out, but also get us..

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DR. JAMES NARDI says you can tell a lot about a tree by the company it keeps. From life in the soil around their roots..

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COULD YOUR houseplants use a tuneup after a hard winter indoors? I know mine will need it, from re-potting, to light pruning, to full-scale rejuvenation..

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EACH YEAR, the powers that be in the horticulture industry declare what the trends are, what color is in, and what design styles we’re all..

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IT’S PROBABLY the question I’m asked most: Gardeners want to go wilder and use more native plants to create habitat, but how do they figure..

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LIKE ANY GARDENER looking ahead to another growing season, I’m deep into the seed catalogs, dreaming of things to come. But many seeds also offer..

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ON GROUNDHOG DAY I am always reminded of another holiday: the Fourth of July, and specifically my first Independence Day on this piece of land,..

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PROMISES OF LESS WORK with more garden productivity often raise my suspicions as perhaps sounding too good to be true, except when the subject is..

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IF YOU THINK you know what a cucumber is, think again. Spend even five minutes on the website of The Cucumber Shop, a passion project..

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WITH THE SURGE in interest in lawn alternatives and other native choices for groundcover, the genus Carex is always mentioned high up on the list...

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HAVE YOU STARTED browsing the incoming seed catalogs yet or clicking around their websites, looking to see if the 2023 lineups have been unveiled? Lane..

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IT’S THAT TIME of year when we look both ways. Not left and right, like we’re crossing the road, but back and forward at the..

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WHEN SHORTER, colder days have us indoors more, a bit of botanical company can make it all a lot brighter. This edition of the podcast..

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I PUT OUT my first bird feeder of the season on Thanksgiving and got the party started. But there’s more to feeding the birds than..

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IF I SAY garden maintenance, you probably think of work—of getting out the pruners and hedge trimmers and such, and subduing any overenthusiastic plants, getting..

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WINTER COLD has just finally descended here, and I’m already missing the smells of the growing season, from the range of flowers to just brushing..

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WANT TO LEARN to harness the coming cold weather to propagate a diversity of plants from seed? Join me and Ken Druse, author of 20..

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‘TIS THE SEASON when I’m making more applesauce to freeze and baking pears for dessert (or for breakfast), so what sweeter topic for today’s episode..

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