To choose a pollinator for your garden is not always an easy thing to do. Well, we have help from the Garden for Wildlife. Why not choose a native plant? Each state has its own unique collection of native plants.…
I am continuing my discussion of London garden center owner Thomas Fairchild (1667-1729). He was an early advoate of the process of hybridizing. I am grateful to David at the Gardens Trust for more information about Fairchild from the Gardens…
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…
I just returned from a visit to Reno, Nevada. While there I had to walk through the beautiful Rose Garden at Idlewild Park, located in a residential area not far from downtown. The one acre Rose Garden has 200 varieties…
I face the prospect of gardening where shade dominates the daylight hours. That's my fourth floor balcony. Recently Jessica Damiano, Associated Press, wrote a wonderful article for the Boston Globe about shade gardening. The name of the article is "Not…