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Beware those yellow ‘blooms’
Earlier this summer, my husband commented that he really liked the funny looking yellow flowers in a pot ...
Earlier this summer, my husband commented that he really liked the funny looking yellow flowers in a pot ...
It’s hot and humid, so I haven’t spent much time in the garden. I’ve gone outside every morning ...
You’ve seen them growing along the side of back roads, near abandoned homesteads and even along the edge ...
Hello, fellow gardeners. It’s me, Anca. Some of you already know me. I’m my mom’s new gardening assistant. ...
Whenever I visit friends in England, I’m seriously envious of their garden, but especially the wisteria (wisteria sinensis) ...
I’ve always loved growing and eating potatoes. There’s nothing better than planting seed potatoes, watching them grow and ...
Every spring, I look forward to participating in several workshops on gardening. If I get one or two ...
Have you met Loropetalum chinense, better known as the Chinese fringe flower? I first learned about it last ...
Pollinators and plants have been having a love affair for more than 100 million years. Throughout that period, ...
I’ve looked into my crystal ball in search of clues about what 2021 will portend for gardeners, and ...
Various types of plants are popular as gifts during the holiday season – poinsettias, cyclamen, orchids, and Christmas ...
Late last winter, I accepted a challenge to infuse more native plants into my existing garden while also ...
Fall means yellow flowers — goldenrods by the dozen, sunflowers, sneezeweed, and many, many more — but not ...
Hello, fellow gardeners. My name is Anca vom Dreifke Wood. I’m my mom’s new garden helper. I can’t ...
Every summer when I was a kid, my mother and grandmother would become obsessed with the need to ...
July was brutally hot and dry. We had day after day of temperatures over 90 degrees with high ...
Gardens never really stay the same. Years ago, my grandmother, and many of her contemporaries in rural Virginia, ...
Sometimes a gardener just needs a change of pace, something like a wild child plant that looks as ...
As most of you who have seen my garden know, it’s all about spring and early summer. There ...
Hello, fellow gardeners. It’s me, Uschi again. While my mom is busy moaning about the general state of ...
Like just about everything else, gardening is influenced by trends. For nearly 10 years, our obsession with native ...
On New Year’s Day, my gardening mad friends in England sent me photos of their yard, and I ...
Hi there, it’s me, Uschi, my mom’s best garden helper. She’s busy reading seed catalogs and making lists ...
It’s December and that means short days and long, dark nights, so I’ve temporarily abandoned the garden. There’s ...
Here it is early November and I’m still nursing along a pepper plant because I’m curious about its ...
Over the years, I’ve gotten lots of questions about gardening. Most are the usual ones — when to ...
You’ve heard of Crimson Tide? Well, last month I had a red tide running through my kitchen. Way ...