A Way To Garden

ornamental plants

Even in my cold Zone 6A climate, I aim for a 365-day garden. Selecting the right plants is a key. The ornamental plant archive includes reliable, beloved garden subjects that I grow here, many with multiple seasons of appeal, from annuals and groundcovers all the way up to shrubs, vines and trees.

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butterfly gardening, with jane hurwitz

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week 13: a season of container-gardening improvs

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week 12: coral peonies, frothy herbaceous clematis, and yes, more frogs

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fighting back against rose rosette disease, with christina king of star roses

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month 3: the chaotic ‘whoosh’ of may-into-june

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how effective are nativars? with doug tallamy

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week 7: managing the meadow, woodland wildflower time and more

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week 6 in the garden: scrambling to be ‘ready’ for open day

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week 5: hellebores, salamander eggs, and other timely teachers

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aroids, with tony avent: jack in the pulpits to elephant ears and more

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pairing clematis with proper partners, with linda beutler of rogerson clematis collection

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showy ferns to crave, with judith jones of fancy fronds nursery

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best phlox for gardeners and butterflies, with mt. cuba’s george coombs

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sunflowers, sweet peas, zinnias and more, with joseph tychonievich

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dreaded norway maples, good groundcovers (including sedges): shade-garden q&a with ken druse

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emerald ash borer, plus imperiled oaks, with morton’s murphy westwood

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houseplants–wild, woolly and otherwise–with jane perrone

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the mad stash: overwintering tender plants, a q&a with ken druse

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what’s really native where you garden? with elizabeth farnsworth

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best hydrangeas of now and tomorrow, with dan hinkley

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old-fashioned hollyhocks plus gmo petunias, with joseph tychonievich

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‘plants are the mulch’ and other nature-based design wisdoms, with claudia west

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growing stewartia and other great small trees: q&a with ken druse

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the monarch-milkweed arms race, with cornell’s anurag agrawal