WHEN GROWING from seed, the list of decisions starts with what turns out to be the simplest question of all: which variety of bean or tomato or zinnia to order. But then things get more
MARGARET RENKL’S newest book, “The Weedy Garden: A Happy Habitat for Wild Friends,” is aimed at children, but it's really for everyone, she says. And indeed, we grownups, too, often need a reminder that our
YOU’VE SEEN and heard the list of no-no plants that were showy longtime nursery and garden standards, but have proven invasive and need to go. Yes, we can yank out the barberry and butterfly bush
AS I HAVE confessed before: I’ve always considered design to be the most challenging part of garden-making. Lately the task is even more complex, because we want our gardens to be not just vibrant visually,
I’M OPENING my garden on Saturday May 30 from 10 AM to 4 PM as part of a weekend of events in my Hudson Valley, N.Y., community, that also includes the spectacular garden of Peter
BOTH GARDENERS and their plants have to be more resilient than ever these days in our changing climate it seems. At the High Line in New York City, one of the best-known naturalistic gardens anywhere,
FINDING OUR WAY toward a more ecologically vibrant garden can sometimes feel a bit challenging, and I’m always looking for resources to guide me along the way, and to share with you. Last year I
IF YOU’VE EVER posted a photo on the massive community science project called iNaturalist and wondered how such contributions get used in research... well, today’s guest is here to tell us about one especially stunning
WHEN ELISE HOWARD and I talked on the show in March, her new book, “Plant This, Not That,” was just out. The popular book offers basic guidelines for selecting and using native plants, and specific
LEA JOHNSON is a plant ecologist whose work, she says, is driven by this question: "All of the wild diversity of life on earth is here, with us, right now. How can we take it
THE OPENING PAGES of Timothy Pakron’s about-to-be-released cookbook aren’t pictures of plates of food, but rather gorgeous flower photos – some dreamy cosmos, followed by a double-page spread of silvery mountain mint, or Pycnanthemum, gleaming
