April 25, 2025
I LOOK FORWARD to spring for many reasons, not the least of which is the emergence and bloom time of the trilliums. There’s a...
April 19, 2025
SO YOU THINK you’re familiar with marigolds and zinnias? Well, it’s time to take another look, I think, as I have been longingly in...
April 12, 2025
IT’S HARD TO THINK of a brighter botanical bright spot than the one that Coleus creates—whether in a container design, or planted in a...
April 4, 2025
I CAN ALMOST taste it now: the flavors of the first spring crops, whether homegrown, or from your CSA share, or even ethically foraged…with...
March 28, 2025
MORE ISN’T ALWAYS better, of course, but in the case of the gardens profiled in the new book “Garden to the Max,” it definitely...
March 21, 2025
THOUGH THE CALENDAR says that spring started on March 20, the many clues that nature offers to those who watch and listen add up...
March 14, 2025
ANYONE WHO has heard of, or even better visited, Chanticleer Garden in Pennsylvania knows that it’s home to some of the country’s most exceptional...
March 14, 2025
HOW DO SOME 90-minute distractions from dreary headlines sound right about now, with each session offering an updated, ecologically smarter look at an essential...
March 8, 2025
WE’VE ALL HEARD about what plants and other features figure into making a garden for the birds, or a pollinator garden. But what about...
March 7, 2025
I’M OPENING my garden on Saturday May 10 from 10 AM to 4 PM as part of a weekend of events in my Hudson...
February 28, 2025
IF ANOTHER HOUSEPLANT dropped all its leaves for several months each year, you’d think you killed it. But with some of Ken Druse‘s and...
February 21, 2025
THE SIGHT OF Eastern bluebirds rates high on my happiness scale, so I say bring them on. But what makes a place look like...
