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[ad_1] This is part of a series with Perfect Earth Project, a nonprofit dedicated to toxic-free, nature-based gardening, on how you can be more sustainable in...
[ad_1] “Irises were my first love,” says horticulturalist Kelly D. Norris, the garden author and designer known for his “new naturalism” garden style. He started out...
[ad_1] We’ve been writing about Tama Matsuoka Wong for more than a decade—first in 2013 when we joined her for a foraging (and eating) adventure on...
[ad_1] Vines can hide an ugly fence or add beauty to trellis or doorways. When grown over an arbor or pergola, they can create shade. But...
[ad_1] While spring and summer offer a bounty of wild food treasures, there is a cornucopia of good things to forage in fall. Fruits like native...
[ad_1] This is part of a series with Perfect Earth Project, a nonprofit dedicated to toxic-free, nature-based gardening, on how you can be more sustainable in...
[ad_1] Your next summer pickling adventure awaits. Yucca fruit pickles are made from the young, green seed pods of yucca plants. They just need to be...
[ad_1] This summer has been hot—really hot. Gardeners across the globe have recently experienced the four hottest days ever observed, and by all accounts, this is...
[ad_1] Common milkweed pods are a native vegetable that could be as familiar at summer greenmarkets as okra. As a food, milkweed still resides on the...
[ad_1] Any article about Physostegia begins with the acknowledgement that this plant’s most-common common name, obedient plant, is a misnomer: Physostegia is anything but complying. The...
[ad_1] Where would you expect to find a meadow filled with native flowers and grasses, where once an expanse of lawn grew? In a suburban front...
[ad_1] The name The Wild Yards Project tells you a little about its founder David Newsom’s journey over the last seven years: It started out as...
[ad_1] There are two main reasons that you might consider planting a pollinator garden in pots instead of in the ground: Either you don’t have a...
[ad_1] Do you know where the wild lettuce grows? Ask a bunny. In Beatrix Potter’s eponymous tale, the Flopsy Bunnies eat too many lettuces and fall...
[ad_1] If you want to start a horticultural fight, opine loudly at your next plant party about the best viburnums to grow. These flowering shrubs provoke...
[ad_1] This is part of a series with Perfect Earth Project, a nonprofit dedicated to toxic-free, nature-based gardening, on how you can be more sustainable in...
[ad_1] Blue Flax, Linum lewisii I can’t get enough of the blue flax in my yard, but it wasn’t always this way. With most other perennials,...
[ad_1] In summer our thoughts turn for refuge to cooling streams and pond edges, and to memories of a spring blaze of marsh marigold and moving...
[ad_1] One of the realities of enjoying a garden is that there’s not always a lot of time to do so. We work, we commute, we...
[ad_1] Makes 12 muffin-sized pies; 12 3¾-inch hand pies; or 1 large 9-inch pie (baked in a springform pan) Summer is picnic-friendly, and having a serviceberry...