Gardening products – hoses, fertilizers, etc – and garden shows everywhere.
I grew up near Richmond, VA, about an hour from Brent and Becky's, the beloved flower bulb company in Tidewater, VA. I've even known Brent since I was a preteen [...]
Arborist wood chips, from One Yard Revolution video Arborist wood chips are in the gardening ether these days, with Dr. Linda Chalker-Scott herself (of Garden Professor and myth-busting [...]
Guest post by Constance Casey Onward and Upward in the Garden by Katherine S. White is often recommended as the prima book about gardening. Readers seeking to grow the perfect zinnia [...]
No holiday post from me - but I bet you've seen plenty lately and anyway, this post has been sitting in draft for ages. From video by Land Designs [...]
It is time to say good-bye to the wonderful and versatile Jelitto Perennial Seeds—at least in one sense. I’ll be clocking out, for the last time, at the end of [...]
Jack Schultz, News-Herald photo. There are few families in American horticulture with four generations of successful nursery crops. There are even fewer nursery legends with a story so [...]
For decades in a former garden, my bird-watching consisted of standing on my deck and pointing the trusty binocs at the bird houses in the wooded valley below. I can't [...]
Jerry Baker, the self-styled "America's Master Gardener" and highly successful huckster for home-remedy books and products died in March of this year at the age of 85. I was curious [...]
These were cheap and great from the botanical gardens sale. Not having even looked at any of the predictions or surveys regarding general gardening behavior, here is my [...]
The best kind of sustainability is to take a waste product and turn it into a valuable resource; to turn garbage, as it were, into gold. There’s a farm family [...]
Here are some sensible plantings at the Berkshire Botanical Gardens, a lovely site we happened upon on the way to Connecticut. It's the less famous sites that tend to [...]
Tesselaar’s Blue Storm Agapanthus is worth growing because it’s a high-impact, no-nonsense plant, not because it typifies the 2016 Color of the Year “Serenity” – photo credit: Tesselaar Plants, [...]
