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Easy To Grow Indoor Succulents
If you love Anthropologie stores and the endless displays of ordinary things made extraordinary by grouping them with fresh ideas, then consider ditching your demanding houseplants for easy to grow...
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Tips For Winterizing Plants
It can be a bit difficult to shift gears and start thinking about winterizing plants, especially after we had such a dry and warm late summer and fall here in the Pacific Northwest. Recently we have...
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Producing Perfect Homegrown Plants from Seed
The seed-starting season is upon us. Soon loads of colorful and alluring seed catalogs will be populating websites and mailboxes nationwide. For the ardent gardener, raising plants from seed has huge...
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Celebrating with Spiral Topiaries
Nothing gives an entry more pizzaz than a pair of spiral topiaries flanking the front door. Plant them in a beautiful large pot and you’ve got the start of a truly elegant winter display. Spirals are...
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Evergreens In the Garden
Quite often when we think of evergreen plants or use the word ‘conifer’, we think of something large like a Douglas Fir, Colorado Spruce or similar tall tree. It is true, these are evergreen plants and...
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The Duality of Artichokes
What happens when a vegetable wants to be a highbrow perennial flower? There’s no question that the artichoke chose to be both. Grow them this coming year and you’ll discover how these curious plants...
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Growing Orchids Indoors for Winter Color
In spite of the internet and so much information coming over it, one of the last holdouts for actual paper catalogs must be the garden seed companies. When they start to arrive in my mailbox (a real,...
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Fragrant Winter Flowering Shrubs
Because of our unseasonably mild January in the Southeast, the bees and I are swooning over an astonishing number of fragrant winter flowering shrubs in the garden. But, why would Mother Nature spend...
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Hot Summer Vegetables That Beat the Heat
Most Americans experienced one of the hottest summers on record last year, and die-hard summer vegetable gardeners were more intimately tuned into the heat — spending untold hours watering and...
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Create a Natural Prairie Garden By Repurposing Old Lawn Soils
The first settlers of the American prairie could not farm the land. First they had to strip away thick sod layer to expose this extraordinarily fertile soil. Sod was so dense, the slabs were stacked...
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Container Gardening Tips For Growing Tomatoes and Berries
It is always fun visiting garden shows to see what plants for container gardening are new and which are being promoted by nurseries for the retail customer. Some plants are not really ‘new’ but are...
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Container Gardening For Versatility And Variety
Of all the many gardens I have visited with plants in containers, the most unique one that stands out in my mind is a garden in NE Portland. In this garden, the front of the house overlooks the roof of...
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All About Growing Edible Sweet Potatoes
Since North Carolina leads the nation in sweet potato production, and I have lived in the Old North State for 33 years, you would think that I would know a thing or two about growing edible sweet...
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Mexican Truffles
Fresh huitlacoche on display at summer market. These ears sell 50 times more than standard ears. In polite company it’s called the Mexican truffle, but in the American corn belt it’s nothing but common...
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