Gardening
Find gardening tips and tricks to create the perfect garden. Garden plots, raised beds and pots and DIY planters, finding the right mulch and garden design.
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rethinking the lawn, with ecological horticulturist dan wilder
THE LECTURE that he’s been giving for a number of years is not-so-subtly called “Kill Your Lawn.” Ecological horticulturist Dan…
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a garden of surprises, with ken druse
THE GARDEN is full of surprises, and the ones that our gardens have offered up this spring was the subject…
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taking stock of native plants, with natureserve’s wesley knapp
WHILE RESEARCHING a story about the endangered status of native trillium in North America recently, I was happy to meet…
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tick research update, and self-care tips, with dr. felicia keesing
HOW ARE WE DOING in the effort to reduce tick encounters and the diseases that ticks carry and transmit to…
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‘the hawk’s way,’ with sy montgomery
AUTHOR SY MONTGOMERY writes that “we are on the cusp of either destroying the sweet green earth, or revolutionizing the…
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how mulch works (and how to use it), with bill fonteno
I GET A LOT of questions every year about mulch, about how to use it, when to use it, which…
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eastern native annuals, with uli lorimer
WITH THE EXPLOSION of interest in native plants in recent years, I know I’m not alone among gardeners who are…
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gravel gardens, with jeff epping of olbrich botanical gardens
WE’RE GOING to do some gravel gardening—not merely applying a thin mulch-like topdressing of gravel to a garden bed, but…
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carnivorous ‘houseplants,’ with kenny coogan
HAVE YOU EVER grown a carnivorous plant—a Venus flytrap or sundew or pitcher plant, perhaps? I bet even a lot…
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trilliums in trouble, with mt. cuba’s amy highland
I’M THINKING about trilliums, prompted not just because these treasured spring ephemerals are coming into their season, but by the…
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