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MOST OF US might routinely assume “monarch” after listening to the phrase “milkweed,” or vice versa. And that’s in actuality an important and intimate relationship, the one between monarch butterflies and native milkweed vegetation. Nevertheless the genus Asclepias supplies sustenance to a wide variety of animal species previous merely that one beloved insect. I spoke […]

SOME OF US plant a row or two of annuals for slicing, however Frances Palmer has taken the phrase “slicing yard” to most probably primarily essentially the most good excessive. From the primary spring bulbs to the final phrase asters of fall, ceramic artist Frances Palmer’s Connecticut yard is a nonstop harvest. No flower will […]

I WAS REMARKING to my good buddy Ken Druse earlier this spring a couple of yard I’d merely visited, and the best way the stands of primulas in it made me jealous, and crave additional, additional, additional. Nevertheless just some primrose varieties are even purchased in native yard amenities, and if you happen to occur […]

WHEN I SPOKE to naturalist and nature writer Nancy Lawson recently about her adventures in wildscaping at her Maryland yard, there was one matter particularly I needed to double once more to and dig in deeper to: her methods for combating undesirable weeds and invasives as we loosen up elements of our landscapes with additional […]

CAN A HISTORIC formal space turn into the home to a forward-thinking panorama of native vegetation? The group at Stoneleigh, a five-year-old public yard on an outdated property in Villanova, Pa., says the reply is an emphatic positive. And their horticultural experiments seem to point out that’s true. Its director, Ethan Kauffman, and I spoke […]

SUCCULENTS: You perhaps already develop some perennial ones in your yard, and perhaps others that aren’t hardy are amongst your favorite houseplants. Nonetheless what if a number of of those indoor kinds started collaborating in seasonal roles inside the yard, too? That’s what Harnek Singh, a longtime gardener at Wave Hill in New York Metropolis, […]

MAYBE SEVEN or eight years prior to now, in a dialog with Panorama Designer Claudia West, she talked about a sentence that has really caught with me as she outlined her technique to deciding on and mixing crops. “Vegetation are the mulch,” Claudia talked about then about making immersive landscapes that interact folks as loads […]

EVERY GARDENER has their obsessions—or maybe a nicer resolution to say that’s maybe to call it their “signature crops,” people who help define their yard. I confess to a extreme problem with gold-leaved points. And closing time I checked my buddy Ken Druse had numerous crops with variegated leaves of each form of daring patterns […]

IT IS NOT TIME pretty however proper right here for what I identify the mad stash, storing these non-hardy vegetation for the winter that we need to maintain alive for another 12 months of service. Nevertheless it is time to make some plans to do precisely that. Marianne Willburn, author of “Tropical Crops and One […]

REDUCING THE footprint of our lawns has been a key environmental message for gardeners currently, since lawns lack biodiversity and comprise giant portions of air air pollution between fertilizers, herbicides, and the gas utilized in mowing. Nevertheless what to cultivate as an alternative? That is the subject of an virtually 15-year native backyard evaluation enterprise […]