I’VE BEEN SCOUTING around in my garden for orphaned plants, ones that used to be in visually pleasing clumps or masses, but because of expanding..

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TIME FOR A LESSON in winter sowing—sowing seeds in fall and early winter outside in a protected spot, a sort of easy DIY home nursery..

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THE DAYS are getting shorter, and in my Northern garden, they’re growing cooler, too. I know my houseplants will be screaming soon to come back..

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TODAY’S GUEST answers even more Urgent Garden Questions each year than I do, in her role as Plant Clinic manager at The Morton Arboretum in..

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HERE’S HOW my head, which is always lost in the garden, I guess, works: The first thing I thought about when the pandemic started—when we..

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MAYBE YOU, like I do, have certain perennial beds that could use editing and some particular plants that need dividing in the process. That’s just..

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KEN DRUSE called the other day to say that he and his garden have the August lulls. The sort of annual dog days experience when..

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IN A RECENT industry newsletter, I saw a link to a story about the herbicide called horticultural vinegar, and clicked on it. And then, realizing..

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BY THE TIME we hit August, some plants in the garden are a little beat up—or have at least needed deadheading, or even wholesale cutting..

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DON’T ANSWER this question too quickly; take your time and think it over. How many mints are you growing in your garden? When Ken Druse..

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I WAS AT THE local garden center the other day, when a truck full of tropical plants was being unloaded. And in the heat of..

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HOW MANY BIRD SPECIES are there in the world and how many individual birds? And how do you even try to count? Do bird sweat,..

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I’VE BEEN LOOKING FORWARD to connecting with Patrick McMillan, who last October took over as director of the exceptional plant collection and astonishing landscape that..

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I HAVE A FASCINATION for seeds of unusual edibles from around the world, and the other day on Instagram, I saw maybe the oddest one..

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A STORY I WROTE recently for my “New York Times” column took me on a fascinating, deep dive into the world of radicchio and put..

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TODAY WE’RE going to do some multiplication, as in: make more shrubs, thanks to a lesson in propagating favorites like Hydrangea or elderberry or Physocarpus..

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LOOKING AROUND the garden as some of spring’s showoff shrubs and perennials fade, I realized how glad I am that I made room for some..

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ENVIRONMENTALIST AND best-selling author Jonathan Drori says that for him, plant science is fascinating, but it’s truly enlivened when it’s entwined with human history and..

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KEN DRUSE AND I are putting a new spin on weeding by giving it a new name: treasure hunting. Maybe the incessant, relentless nature of..

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ONE DIMENSION of my friendship with Alexandra Stafford is a years-long ongoing barter. She shares her cooking expertise with me and my extended family, and..

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