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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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

Through the Garden Gate

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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 ... Read more

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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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

Through the Garden Gate

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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. ... Read more

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 ... Read more

Through the Garden Gate

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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 ... Read more

Through the Garden Gate

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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 ... Read more

Through The Garden Gate

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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 ... Read more

Through the garden gate

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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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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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 ... Read more

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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 ... Read more

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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 ... Read more

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Gardening at the end of the season

The days are short; so short that it’s dark long before I usually stop working in the garden. ... Read more

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Trends in daylily hybridization

Gardeners are some of the nicest people you’ll ever meet, and I suspect that daylily growers are the ... Read more

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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 ... Read more

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Do the Chelsea chop

It’s hot and humid, so I haven’t spent much time in the garden. I’ve gone outside every morning ... Read more

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The ultimate pass along garden plant

You’ve seen them growing along the side of back roads, near abandoned homesteads and even along the edge ... Read more

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Beware of poisonous plants in the garden

Hello, fellow gardeners. It’s me, Anca. Some of you already know me. I’m my mom’s new gardening assistant. ... Read more

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The joys of growing potatoes

I’ve always loved growing and eating potatoes. There’s nothing better than planting seed potatoes, watching them grow and ... Read more

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Embracing the unexpected

Every spring, I look forward to participating in several workshops on gardening. If I get one or two ... Read more

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Loropetalum — a versatile garden shrub

Have you met Loropetalum chinense, better known as the Chinese fringe flower? I first learned about it last ... Read more

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Planting the right plants can help pollinators

Pollinators and plants have been having a love affair for more than 100 million years. Throughout that period, ... Read more

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What’s new in the garden for 2021

I’ve looked into my crystal ball in search of clues about what 2021 will portend for gardeners, and ... Read more

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A perfect plant gift for the Christmas season

Various types of plants are popular as gifts during the holiday season – poinsettias, cyclamen, orchids, and Christmas ... Read more

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