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what is killing bats?
I WAS ON THE PHONE with a fellow gardener last week near dusk when the first bat I’d seen this [read more…]
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hot p(l)ants: overlooked witch-hazels
IF GARDEN CENTERS WERE OPEN in February or March in cold-climate zones like mine, I predict that early blooming Asian [read more…]
a season for sisterhood (from 1989)
WE HAVE FOUND neutral ground, my sister and I. After three and a half decades, there is at last a [read more…]
hot p(l)ants: hellebores, bravest perennial
WHY WAIT FOR THE FIRST of the bulbs or an extra-eager perennials like Pulmonaria to see some color outside? Most [read more…]
well said: clematis
AN UNPRUNED CLEMATIS looks like a disemboweled mattress—a painful sight.’—the late Christopher Lloyd of Great Dixter, garden writer, nurseryman, gardening [read more…]
well said: never say die
I CONSIDER EVERY PLANT HARDY until I have killed it myself…at least three times’ – Tony Avent, plant hunter and [read more…]
germination testing of seeds
GERMINATION TESTING of leftover seeds would make a good science project for grade-school kids, and it can delight and inform [read more…]
smaller is better (in cabbages)
PREDICTION: More people would actually grow, and eat, cabbage if it weren’t for those bowling-ball-sized heads of up to 8 [read more…]
why plant peas you have to stake?
IT WOULDN’T BE a vegetable garden without edible-pod peas, the closest thing to dessert that you can eat right in [read more…]
hotp(l)ants: the brightest spring poppy
IT’S ALWAYS NICE to feel ahead of the curve. For probably fifteen years, I have been growing a springtime ephemeral [read more…]
