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This article first appeared in the Fall 2025 issue of Northern Gardener magazine. Visit our shop to order this or other available back issues....
Succulents are hot right now. Everyone wants them. In the January/February issue of Northern Gardener, I wrote about a low-light alternative to the much-coveted indoor succulent dish garden. Many of us just do not have the bright light required for indoor succulents, but we may have the light needed to plant an outdoor succulent dish garden. It can live happi...
July is the month our gardens oft experience a spike in issues. From pests to weeds to fungi, lots of unwelcome guests find their way into our precious veggie patches as the sun shines bright and hot overhead. Fortunately for us, many of the so-called weeds we so detest are actually native and delicious edible plants! Furthermore, the height of summer is also...
For a graceful, yet sturdy, plant that attracts pollinators of all types and blooms reliably through most of the summer, consider Verbena hastata. The small, stacked blue-violet flowers begin to form in early summer, soon after the plant’s lacy foliage has spiked from the soil. Its other common names include blue verbena, swamp verbena and simpler’s joy.
Description an...The dog days of summer are upon us— and our plants. Although heat stress has always been an occasional problem plaguing northern gardens, only over the last decade or so has it really become one of the top issues facing our gardens as we face year-after-year of record-breaking heat.
You might think your garden plants enjoy the heat...