Nature, wildlife, and how gardening affects the environment.
Ringneck Marsh, Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge (photo by M. Davis) Here’s a list that I hope future federal administrations and elected officials will keep in mind. It’s the [...]
The weekend before last I had the pleasure of meeting Heather Holm, a great gardener and leading advocate for pollinators from Minneapolis. She has self-published two very useful (and attractive) [...]
Students competing in the 2015 fair We who worry and wonder about our social-media-obsessed youth and the future of horticulture found some relief at a recent gathering of [...]
It’s called the ‘Mostoller Wild Goose’ bean. Sarah Mostoller found the first seeds in the crop of a wild goose that her son had shot in a mill race in [...]
Salvisa, KY. I retired from Jelitto Perennial Seeds last month, and it’s been cold and gray in Kentucky ever since. I’m itching for spring. I have to be [...]
Phlox 'Jeana' Typically, growers in the hort industry fund plant trials (like the ones at Penn State I visited last year) to find out from actual research which [...]
This is from the Key West butterfly conservancy; I'm only able to get close to birds in captivity. Hell, yeah. As a rule, I’m not really a fan [...]
One of the virtues of gardening is that it brings its practitioners into intimate contact with natural systems. As I discovered as a young gardener many years ago, and a [...]
A couple of weeks ago, I had the privilege of attending a lecture sponsored by the New York Botanical Garden, and it was eye-opening. The speaker was Cassian Schmidt, who [...]
In (somewhat) better days Trees are suffering. First, there are the pests; among the most current are the emerald ash borer, the mountain pine beetle, and the wooly [...]
When I dug in my Berkshire garden this summer I found a host of earthworms. That, it turns out, is bad. I was raised to regard earthworms as the gardener’s [...]
The roof now Buffalo is not landscape architecture central. Aside from a large Olmsted park system (that’s been adulterated in spots), I find many WNY public landscapes uninspired. [...]
