THE LECTURE that he’s been giving for a number of years is not-so-subtly called “Kill Your Lawn.” Ecological horticulturist Dan Jaffe Wilder knows that starting..

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THE GARDEN is full of surprises, and the ones that our gardens have offered up this spring was the subject of a recent conversation with..

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WHILE RESEARCHING a story about the endangered status of native trillium in North America recently, I was happy to meet botanist Wesley Knapp. Our trillium..

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HOW ARE WE DOING in the effort to reduce tick encounters and the diseases that ticks carry and transmit to humans? The results from a..

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TODAY’S GUEST, author Sy Montgomery, writes that “we are on the cusp of either destroying the sweet green earth, or revolutionizing the way we understand..

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I GET A LOT of questions every year about mulch, about how to use it, when to use it, which kind to use. I wanted..

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WITH THE EXPLOSION of interest in native plants in recent years, I know I’m not alone among gardeners who are scouring catalogs and specialty nurseries,..

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WE’RE GOING to do some gravel gardening—not merely applying a thin mulch-like topdressing of gravel to a garden bed, but planting right into a deliberate..

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HAVE YOU EVER grown a carnivorous plant—a Venus flytrap or sundew or pitcher plant, perhaps? I bet even a lot of keen gardeners haven’t. Today’s..

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I’M THINKING about trilliums, prompted not just because these treasured spring ephemerals are coming into their season, but by the disturbing news in a report..

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FINALLY, the first fresh flavors of spring are starting to show up at the farmers’ markets, and before long in our gardens, with more to..

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EVEN THOUGH I don’t live anywhere near St. Louis, one of my most-used and appreciated resources for plant information over many, many years has been..

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DO I NEED a soil test? And what kind of amendments should I be adding to my vegetable beds or containers to get things off..

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I THOUGHT MY obsession with Angelica blooms was a serious one until recently, when I met Sam Keitch of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, who takes..

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MORE THAN 30 events listed and linked below are part of The Workshop Experience Weekend, scheduled for May 7-8, 2022, in and around Hillsdale, NY...

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  WHAT’S YOUR most important gardening tool? A new public television series reminds us that it’s not a trowel or pruner or spade, but our..

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IN LATE WINTER, we gardeners rev up around sowing those first seeds indoors under lights. But the promise of a bountiful vegetable garden that keeps..

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GARDENERS HAVE increasingly heard the call to reduce or eliminate their use of peat moss, the most familiar ingredient in seed-starting mixes and potting soils—one..

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SICK OF WINTER? What I find helps, besides the occasional warmish, sunny day, is thinking about tomatoes. And that’s what we’re going to do today..

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WHILE MOST OF US focus on keeping deer from browsing our gardens, Brad Roeller actually once managed what was called a Deer Browse Garden as..

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