Planning a cutting garden
A cutting garden provides a home-grown source of material for fresh flower arrangements. It might focus on one type of plant, such as a spring cutting
There’s more to bulbs than spring
Summer bulbs, which are planted in the spring after danger of frost, extend the garden’s blooming season
2022 is the Year of the Gladiolus
Gladiolus are as American as apple pie. Generations of gardeners, from Maine to California, have tucked these summer-blooming bulbs into their gardens in spring and been
Seed-starting basics
Are you ready for an early season gardening adventure? Seed displays are prevalent right now
Hellebores, heralds of spring
For a stunning display of blooms in early spring, most New England gardens would benefit from the addition
Study: Popular perennial flowering plants can attract diverse mix of pollinators
Popular species of perennial flowering plants vary widely in their attractiveness to pollinators, but homeowners
Forcing spring bulbs
Watching the first flowering bulbs appear from the thawing ground in spring is one of my favorite times of the year.
Forcing branches for winter flowers
Forsythia in February? Impossible, you say! Not so. A vase full of flowers from the garden won’t take much more effort than harvesting some branches
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