September 4, 2026
WHEN I HEARD that today’s guest, who’s been a guiding force in educating organic farmers, was finally publishing a book specifically for gardeners, I...
August 28, 2026
IS A GREENHOUSE in your future? I’ve never had one, and I have always been not-so-secretly jealous of friends who do—whether to propagate their...
August 21, 2026
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...
August 14, 2026
RATHER THAN digging in, let’s wade into our topic this week—because the subject is water lilies. How did I know so little about these...
August 8, 2026
WHEN WAS THE last time you made room in your vegetable garden for something a little out of the ordinary that you’d never grown...
August 8, 2026
WHEN I ANNOUNCED in June that the Virtual Garden Club would take a summer break, I promised we would, however, get together in a...
July 31, 2026
IDON’T RECALL who tipped me off to the Amphibian and Reptile Conservancy’s email newsletter, but I am glad that I found it and signed...
July 24, 2026
TRIGGER WARNING: Today’s segment will include mention of irresistible hydrangeas and may prompt severe plant-shopping binges in susceptible individuals. You’ve been warned. My guest...
July 17, 2026
ARE YOU A FOLLOWER of fashion—houseplant fashion, that is—seeking out the latest variety that everyone’s after, perhaps the “it” plant that’s been splashed across...
July 10, 2026
I CALL THE phenomenon tomato troubles: the yellow-spotted foliage that falls off, or the plant that produces all those misshapen fruits. And yes, the...
July 3, 2026
LEA JOHNSON is a plant ecologist whose work, she says, is driven by this question: “All of the wild diversity of life on earth...
June 26, 2026
I KNOW, it feels like we just planted the vegetable garden moments ago. But a close look around as summer really takes hold quickly...
