A Love Letter to Sanguisorbas – Gardenista
I came to gardening, as many of us do, not necessarily out of a love of the natural world but because of a fascination with flowers. In the…
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Plant-O-Rama Celebrates 30 Years: Here Are 7 Ideas We Took Away from the Symposium – Gardenista
After a surprise snow day reschedule, Metro Hort Group hosted its 30th Plant-O-Rama last Thursday morning at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Every year, hundreds of horticultural professionals descend…
Read more Plant-O-Rama Celebrates 30 Years: Here Are 7 Ideas We Took Away from the Symposium – GardenistaThe Garden Decoder: What Are ‘Seed Banks’? (And Why Are They Important?) – Gardenista
Native Plant Trust Above: Inside Native Plant Trust’s rare plant seed cooler, one of several repositories that make up the rare plant seed bank. Photograph by Alexis Doshas…
Read more The Garden Decoder: What Are ‘Seed Banks’? (And Why Are They Important?) – GardenistaVernonia lettermannii ‘Iron Butterfly’: Plant of the Year for 2026
The Garden Club of America (GCA) has named Vernonia lettermannii ‘Iron Butterfly’ Plant of the Year—which, according to its website, “is awarded annually to acknowledge the cultivation and…
Read more Vernonia lettermannii ‘Iron Butterfly’: Plant of the Year for 2026Winterberry 101: Native Berries to Brighten Winter – Gardenista
Despite being natively at home in bogs and on the edges of kettle ponds and other wetlands, winterberry, a native holly species, does not require wet feet in…
Read more Winterberry 101: Native Berries to Brighten Winter – GardenistaResolutions Roundup: Garden Pros Share the 10 Ways They’re Changing Their Landscapes in 2026 – Gardenista
With the start of the new year, our minds are a-swirl with ideas for what we’ll do in our gardens come spring. For inspiration, we asked garden and…
Read more Resolutions Roundup: Garden Pros Share the 10 Ways They’re Changing Their Landscapes in 2026 – GardenistaThe Best Garden Nonprofits to Donate to in 2025
As the year comes to a close, mailboxes (both real and digital) are flooded with donation requests from nonprofit organizations. This is a critical time for charities because…
Read more The Best Garden Nonprofits to Donate to in 2025The All-Star List: 5 Plants I Want More of In My Garden – Gardenista
December is the month for year-end reviews. There’s already a deluge of best-of lists for books and movies, but what about plants? I think they deserve accolades, too.…
Read more The All-Star List: 5 Plants I Want More of In My Garden – GardenistaQuick Takes With: Richard Hayden – Gardenista
Piet Oudolf designed a set of long-handled hand tools, a spade and a fork. They’re perfect for when you’re working on your knees, but need more leverage than…
Read more Quick Takes With: Richard Hayden – GardenistaAmerican Persimmon Tree: How to Grow the Native Tree
Growing American persimmon trees checks several horticultural and culinary boxes. American persimmon—Diospsyros virginiana and hybrids of this species—are very cold hardy fruit trees, with deliciously sweet fruit, and…
Read more American Persimmon Tree: How to Grow the Native TreeCues to Care: How to Design Ecological Gardens that Look Neat and Tidy
This is part of a series with Perfect Earth Project, a nonprofit dedicated to toxic-free, ecological gardening, on how you can be more sustainable in your landscapes at home. …
Read more Cues to Care: How to Design Ecological Gardens that Look Neat and TidyBlue Cardinal Flower: How to Grow Lobelia, a Native Perennial
Lobelia siphilitica, Blue Cardinal Flower Blue cardinal flower, also known as great blue lobelia, is a tall native perennial that blooms for long weeks at the end of…
Read more Blue Cardinal Flower: How to Grow Lobelia, a Native PerennialSumac Essence: A Native Alternative to Pomegranate Molasses
If you like tart flavors, then sumac essence might be the ingredient you didn’t know your kitchen was missing. Sumac essence is one of my pantry’s most prized…
Read more Sumac Essence: A Native Alternative to Pomegranate MolassesThe Low-Impact Garden: Fiona Brockhoff’s Nature-Based Garden on the Mornington Peninsula
In just two weeks, Gardenista: The Low-Impact Garden lands in bookstores! We are so appreciative of all the interest the book has already generated. As a thank-you, our…
Read more The Low-Impact Garden: Fiona Brockhoff’s Nature-Based Garden on the Mornington PeninsulaDowny Skullcap: How to Grow Scutellaria Incana, a Native North American Wildflower
Downy Skullcap, Scutellaria incana The longer I garden, the more I want to grow perennials that bloom for as long as possible, and that ask for as little…
Read more Downy Skullcap: How to Grow Scutellaria Incana, a Native North American WildflowerPawpaw Streusel Cake: A Recipe for the Native American Fruit
When the evenings begin to nip and the light becomes clearer than it has been for months, you know it’s pawpaw time. The fruit of Asimina triloba begins…
Read more Pawpaw Streusel Cake: A Recipe for the Native American FruitNative perennials for late summer create a naturalistic landscape
When August melts into September, nights are suddenly noticeably longer, while flowering perennials seem to grow wilder, to compensate. One of the greatest gardening pleasures of this cusp-season…
Read more Native perennials for late summer create a naturalistic landscapeHyper-Local Native Plant Nurseries: The Rise of the Backyard Nursery
This is part of a series with Perfect Earth Project, a nonprofit dedicated to toxic-free, ecological gardening, on how you can be more sustainable in your landscapes at home. …
Read more Hyper-Local Native Plant Nurseries: The Rise of the Backyard NurseryShrubs for Shade: Our Favorite Flowering Shrubs for the Shade Garden
For the many gardeners whose growing-spaces are either entirely or partly shaded, shade-loving shrubs offer an important, permanent layer of interest alongside perennials and beneath trees. In small…
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The New York City Biodiversity Task Force on How We Can Help Better Support Our Ecosystem
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 your landscapes at…
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