July 11, 2025
GEORGE SCHOELLKOPF returned from a 1979 trip visiting English gardens inspired to do some garden-making of his own. His canvas was a Northwestern Connecticut...
July 4, 2025
A COUPLE OF RAVENS have been shouting at each other across the garden each day this spring-into-summer, and their loud-mouthed antics reminded me of...
June 28, 2025
A BIG OLD copper beech tree is a focal point of my garden, and each time I look out the window at it admiringly...
June 20, 2025
WE’RE GOING TO do some pruning, but not the same old straight-forward kind. Instead we’re going to talk topiary, and its transformative powers—not just...
June 14, 2025
SOME OF US plant a row of particular annuals with the intention to cut them for bouquets in their moment of bloom, and some...
June 7, 2025
WE MAY KNOW ONE when we see it, but what word best describes an ecological landscape? Compared to traditional, more formal gardens, such native-plant-forward...
May 31, 2025
I’VE ANSWERED a lot of garden questions in my time as a garden journalist, but nobody has asked more of them than my latest...
May 30, 2025
YOUR RESPONSE to my spring series of “Garden 2.0” webinars was enthusiastic—and then some. Thank you! So what do you say we just keep...
May 23, 2025
AGAIN AND AGAIN, as I was reading the recent book “Bad Naturalist” by Paula Whyman, I kept thinking: Good thing I only have a...
May 17, 2025
THE FIRST ISSUE of “American Gardener,” the newly redesigned member magazine of the American Horticultural Society, arrived recently, and in it are lots of...
May 9, 2025
WHEN I FIRST started gardening, it wasn’t unusual to hear other gardeners lamenting the shady areas of their landscapes – wishing for more, more,...
May 3, 2025
WOODY PLANTS, especially trees, can be pure ecological powerhouses, but most of us don’t have room for an entire forest in our backyards. So...
