It is the start of summer where we gardeners face our summer garden tasks. Well, since I now live in a condominium, my 1 1/2 acre garden has shrunk to about six containers on the balcony. The major issue however…
You may wonder how plants from other cultures made the journey to your garden. Robert Fortune (1812-1880) was an English plant hunter who traveled the world in search of plants for the English garden. Mary and John Gribbin, in their…
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…