BESIDES THEIR native-heavier plant palette and looser style, ecologically designed landscapes have another difference: The way we maintain them is not the same as with more traditional, ornamentally-focused gardens. I’m asked again and again by gardeners
KEVIN WEST begins his newest book, called “The Cook’s Garden,” like this: “This is a book about flavor,” he writes. “It is a book about how to become a better cook by stepping into the
ALMOST 10 YEARS AGO on this program, I talked about making sourdough starter with today’s guest, Sarah Owens, on the occasion of the publication her book called “Sourdough.” Now a 10th anniversary edition of the
MOST OF US have something to hide—in our gardens, that is, some view of something we’d like to erase. It could be the telephone pole across the street that we can see from certain spots,
'WHAT IF THE first step in transforming your lawn-dominated home landscape into a place of enhanced biodiversity could be fun, educational, and free?” That’s how I began a recent “New York Times” garden column about
THE “WHAT PLANT GOES WHERE?” aspect of gardening is the hardest part for a lot of us. And as we increasingly shift our plant palette and gardening style to be more native and ecologically focused,
IN RECENT growing seasons, the “new normal” of a changing climate has sometimes been making me feel like my Northeastern garden has relocated farther to the South. So maybe that’s part of what caught my
THE FALL bird migration is under way, and that means the cast of characters we’re seeing and hearing in the garden is changing quickly, as we say goodbye for now to some species, and keep
HOW DO THREE MORE 90-minute distractions from the seemingly endless world noise sound right about now, with each session offering an updated look at an aspect of gardening I find most challenging: design? I’m especially
TODAY’S GUEST and I were sitting having a cup of tea together recently and talking about guess what? Plants. What came up pretty fast was how lately we both sometimes cringe at the results to
PATRICK MCDUFFEE believes that everyone should have at least one scented geranium on their windowsill year-round, for an on-demand invigorating whiff of fragrance, or to admire its colorful flowers—or to make a homebrewed cup of