LET THE seed buying season begin. The 2024 decisions are being loaded into seed-catalog internet sites, and the earliest print catalogs are already arriving in our mailboxes, as if to help soften the separation nervousness we would actually really feel if we’ve already put our gardens to mattress for the winter. One which I on […]

EVERY YEAR as soon as I get to the sweet pea listings throughout the seed catalogs, I consider: That’s the 12 months, the 12 months I’ll organize some helps throughout the yard for them, and indulge of their unmatched extravagance of color and fragrance. Matt Mattus doesn’t hesitate one second, or should suppose twice about […]

WHAT’S NOT TO LOVE about zinnias? Pure seed farmer and breeder Don Tipping of Siskiyou Seeds and I every vote an emphatic “certain” in favor of making zinnias a part of every yard 12 months. Nevertheless what goes into creating the vary of zinnia colors and kinds and sizes? And what are some new attempting […]

EARLY ON IN making my yard a very long time prior to now, I bought a nursery pot of bluestar, or Amsonia, at a neighborhood plant sale, and planted it in a border proper right here. It has under no circumstances requested one thing of me, under no circumstances had any pests or sicknesses, and […]

TODAY’S TOPIC is orchids, nonetheless not these you would be rising as a flowering houseplant. Our matter is native terrestrial varieties which may be more often than not beneath good pressure inside the wild, their numbers dwindling. Now, as a consequence of work led by Peter Zale at Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania, strategies have been […]