More flowers, more plants, more life
More is better. For the love of wanton annuals. (C) Lorene Edwards Forkner I like to turn hardy annuals loose in my garden, for the flowers of course, [...]
Growing a Gardener
It's taken my entire life to grow into a gardener. As kids we played outside. My friends and I dug holes and pinched herbs from the neighbor’s garden for feasts [...]
A Challenging Call to Change our Relationship with Nature
Gardening is an ancient craft but Mary Reynolds, a “reformed” internationally acclaimed landscape designer, hopes to propel a paradigm shift in how we approach the care and tending of our [...]
Plume Poppy — a great idea or garden lunacy?
I’ve arrived at that inexplicable place where I’ve forgotten the hassle and headache of eradicating Macleaya cordata, a colonizing perennial that once ran roughshod in the front garden, only to [...]
Planting for Persuasion
Experiencing such a garden is the best way I can coax those new to gardening or the natural gardening movement to swap part or perhaps even all of lawn, beds of ground cover, or stands of invasive honeysuckle for plants that are more beneficial to nature and more attractive.
For Covid Times: Veggie/Pollinator Garden Combo Power Pack!
Well, here we are, enjoying our first pandemic. Most of us anyway. But even the flimsiest grasp of history informs us that bad times are a dime a dozen. The [...]
Pollinator-Friendly Lawns
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) [...]
Testing Pollinator Plants at Penn State
Connie Schmotzer is Principal Investigator for pollinator research. Just in time for National Pollinator Week, my Garden Writers region planned a fabulous outing for members - to see the [...]