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By Amanda Morris, Ph.D Twisted, dessicated, browned vines droop across their cages, all life and vitality wrecked by powdery mildew, too much water, not enough air, and failed planning. These [...]
Guest Rant by Amy Campion If we gardeners agree on anything, it’s that compost is wonderful stuff. We can never have enough of it. We make it ourselves in heaps [...]
Guest Post by veterinary surgeon and master gardener James Roush/Garden Musings ProfessorRoush would like to call down a pox on all garden authorities who have advocated various winter hardy boxwoods to be excellent [...]
Guest Rant by Amy Campion Like thistles invading a garden, hackneyed phrases have seeded themselves into garden writing and need to be rooted out. They choke out good prose and [...]
Permanent beds and paths in the author's garden. Guest Rant by Megan Cain I get why you till. There’s something in all of us gardeners that leaps with [...]
Guest Post by Ed Bruske Delayed almost a month by an unusually cold and prolonged winter, our friend Gini--an avid arborist-- arrived the other day to give us our first [...]
by Dr. Amanda Morris Splintered fence. Shattered shrubs. Shredded trunks. And pine needles. Everywhere, pine needles. Destruction with the scent of Christmas. As I made my way into the barely [...]
Guest Post by Ed Bruske The nor'easter that roared up the East Coast recently dumped another foot of snow on our part of Upstate New York. I found myself struggling [...]
Below, author Ruth Kassinger summarizes a chapter from her new book, A Garden of Marvels, published this week. Lately, with heavy snow here in suburban Maryland, I've had to keep [...]
Beautiful selection and variety of groses grown in California's Monterey Bay region at Pajarosa Farms. Guest Rant by Debra Prinzing Earlier this week, Libby Francis-Baxter, owner of The [...]
Guest rant by Debra Lee Baldwin, a rebuttal to Ivette Soler’s rant in which she expressed ennui about succulents and proposed that the plants’ popularity is diminishing. If anyone ought [...]
by Helen Yoest, author of Plants with Benefits The last two things a woman puts on before meeting her date for dinner is a touch of perfume and a smile. [...]
