Certain plants just have a bigger following than others. Perhpas it's shape, color, blossom time or all three of these features that make us seek out and cultivate a particular flower. In the history of gardening the orchid has maintained…
Recently I met Jane Li, a gardener in the Boston area. She calls her method of growing plants 'guerilla gardening.' It is a term, according to wikiHow, used to describe the unauthorized cultivation of plants or crops on vacant public…
New Bedford, Massachuetts is located on the Acushnet River in what is known as the South Coast region. It has a long history of involvement in the whaling industry. Today you can learn about that history in the city's famous…
The kitchen garden, or vegetable garden as it became known, has a long history in the story of gardening. Therese O'Malley writes about the walled garden tradition in her book, Keywords In American Landscape Design. She says "All citations emphasized…
One of the most prolific writers of the nineteenth century, horticulturist Peter Henderson (1822-1890) wrote several books. Henderson was born in Scotland and trained 'in the Old World method' of gardening, according to Wilhelm Miller, Chicago landscape designer. In 1847…