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Grand Landscapes and Thoroughbreds, too? Meet Ashford Stud
Lucky me. When I posted to Facebook that I'd be going to Lexington, KY to see the town I was born in, a "friend" I didn't actually know introduced herself as a local garden designer and offered to show me [...]
Reflecting
It's a sombre time in the UK as most of you will be aware. Perhaps time for us gardeners to think about reflection in our gardens. Whatever various worthy people might like to tell us, gardeners know that a garden [...]
Time for houseplant fun
Yes, houseplants can be fun, and, in a month or so, after I finish with bulbs, they’ll be the only plants I’m tending until spring. I’ve never been sure why, usually when longtime gardeners gather, mentions of houseplants can be [...]
Update on Periwinkle – the Sneaky, Low-Life Invader I Underestimated
I'll admit it's humbling to reread this post from 2018 in which I defended Periwinkle (Vinca minor) when it's grown where it can't do any harm. An example is in this spot surrounded by cement and asphalt at the edge [...]
“One of my favorites: A blend of gossip, news, crusade and, yes, raw rant, it blows the cobwebs out of gardening’s mustier corners.”
– Washington Post gardening editor Adrian Higgins
TLDR: Too Long Didn’t Read Culture makes idiots of us all – even gardeners.
3 minute, 22 second read. It’s difficult to chew and enjoy an aged, grass-fed steak when you’ve been living on a diet of McDonalds cheeseburgers – or a sautéed portobello when you’ve got a freezer full of [...]
ISO Potted Annuals for Pollinators
Every year I notice one plant in particular that people seemed to like above all the rest, at least enough to comment on it, and this year it's the common houseplant Persian Shield next to my front [...]
Houseplants are just fine—they don’t need to clean the air
So just stop with the claims. I thought this—well, let’s call it an exaggeration rather than a myth—had died down, but no. It cropped up in a recent enewsletter from a source I’d have thought knew better: [...]
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