A Way to Garden

IS A GREENHOUSE in your future? I’ve never had one, and I have always been not-so-secretly jealous of friends who do—whether to propagate their seedlings in late winter into spring, or grow more tropicals and other “houseplants” than fit in their house, or who knows what. A new book by horticulturist Leslie Halleck called “Home Greenhouse Revival: Growing Year-Round Foliage, ...

THE OPENING PAGES of Timothy Pakron’s about-to-be-released cookbook aren’t pictures of plates of food, but rather gorgeous flower photos – some dreamy cosmos, followed by a double-page spread of silvery mountain mint, or Pycnanthemum, gleaming against a moody dark background. That all makes sense, because the cookbook is titled “Garden Variety: Plant-Focused Recipes Inspired ...

RATHER THAN digging in, let’s wade into our topic this week—because the subject is water lilies. If you follow any botanical gardens on social media, you’ve probably seen how the giant tropical Victoria water lilies, with their massive pads, have gone viral in recent summers thanks to a competition called the Water Lily Weigh-Off that tests how much weight those ingeniously d...

WHEN WAS THE last time you made room in your vegetable garden for something a little out of the ordinary that you’d never grown or maybe even tasted before? I don’t know of anyone who speaks out more passionately or eloquently in behalf of exceptional vegetable varieties than Lane Selman, who’s introduced an ever-widening audience—myself among them—to many of her favorites ov...