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Daylilies

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Through the Garden Gate: The Daylily Whisperer

Some gardeners grow lots of different plants. Others fall in love with one or two plants and specialize ...

too hot in the garden

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Through the Garden Gate: It’s too hot in the garden

We’ve had day after day of temperatures above 90F, and the heat has taken a toll on both ...

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Through The Garden Gate: Dinner parties and otherworldly vegetables

In 1972 Ricky Nelson sang about going to a garden party and being disappointed by what happened; he ...

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Through the Garden Gate: Controversy in the garden

My gardening friends in England and Scotland are bemoaning the rise of what they call eco-rectitude. They’re all ...

Quiet in the Garden

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Through the garden Gate: Quiet in the Garden

During the height of the pandemic, baby Anca and I would sit on the porch steps and listen ...

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Through the Garden Gate: December in the Garden

December is usually a quiet time in the garden. The days are short, and the temperature is crisp. ...

Snake Plant

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Through the Garden Gate: Behold the Snake Plant

Many years ago, everyone’s front parlor had one. It sat in a dark corner in that cold, seldom-used ...

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Through the Garden Gate: Change in the garden

When we bought our house over 30 years ago, it was surrounded by massive oak trees. They provided ...

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Through The Garden Gate: A look through other people’s gardens

Curiosity killed the cat! Cats are, indeed, known for being curious and for getting into trouble because of ...

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Through the Garden Gate: The best of intentions

Way back in late January, when I was still browsing plant catalogs and making wish lists of plants ...

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Through the garden gate: Plants that thrive in hot summer weather

It’s hot and humid and my garden has a bad case of the blahs. Truth be told, so ...

Garden Clubs

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Through the Garden Gate: Garden Clubs — Not just who raised the best rose

There is a long history of clubs just for men – social, botanical, historical, culinary, even ones for ...

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Through the Garden Gate: Time to fight against Mother Nature

Several years ago, I visited the Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall. The gardens were at their peak ...

Garden

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Through the Garden Gate: Just a typical week in the garden

Gardening is supposed to be peaceful, calming, and restorative. Most of the time that’s true, but once in ...

Garden

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Through the Garden Gate: Butchery in the garden

Gardens seem so peaceful. We talk about them as refuges, great places to relax, read, meditate, and just ...

darwins orchid

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Through The Garden Gate — Darwin’s Orchid: An uncommon house plant

It’s February, that short month that seems to go on forever. It threatens us with cold, wet weather ...

bottle tree

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Through the Garden Gate — ‘The neighbors are gonna talk!’

If you’re of a certain age and grew up in the South, then you’re probably familiar with this ...

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Through the garden gate — The beauty of dry stacked stone walls

Throughout New England and the mountains in Virginia, there are stone walls built by farmers primarily from the ...

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Through the garden gate — Garden envy

A few weeks ago, I escaped to Maine to explore some gardens and late-blooming native plants there. Obviously, ...

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Al and Betsy’s pollinator patch

Nestled at the end of a long winding driveway in Pamplin is a picturesque farm belonging to Al ...

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Through the Garden Gate — A message from Anca

Hi fellow gardeners, it’s me, Anca. My Mom is busy filling in some holes in the backyard, so ...

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Through the garden gate: Oh! Those odd names

You all know that I’m slightly obsessed with daylilies. They’re the perfect plant for hot summer days when ...

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Through the Garden Gate — The joys of a simple garden

Farmville is blessed with many talented gardeners. Explore the various neighborhoods, and you’ll find English kitchen gardens with ...

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Through the garden gate — Iconoclastic container plantings

Now that warm weather is definitely here to stay, it’s time to prepare new container plantings for the ...

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When plants bloom

I’m fascinated by plants that bloom at a specific time every day. That old garden favorite, the four ...

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Why rhododendron leaves curl and droop

Many gardeners say that they can tell the temperature outside simply by looking out the window at the ...

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Ragweed: A highly adaptable plant

Have you ever tried to define a weed? I often hear that it’s just a plant that appears ...

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