The native plant bandwagon is just getting started, but it’s easier said than done to find native plants at the garden centre. Rather than head to your local…
Read more Sourcing and Propagating Native Plants: Your Ethical Guide – Garden TherapyIt wasn’t a field when we bought the house in Massachusetts, but that’s what it ended up being. At first, there were massive junipers that lined the circular…
Read more Lessons Learned: Gardening My Rewilded Front Yard – GardenistaOpium Poppy, Papaver somniferum The notoriety of Papaver somniferum, the “sleep-inducing poppy,” is only partly to do with its outlaw family. Opium poppies are grown for their edible seeds and…
Read more Gardening 101: Opium Poppy – GardenistaThere are many reasons to visit South Africa, but for anyone whose heart beats faster for flowers, there is this hint: Take a deep breath, exhale slowly, and…
Read more A Stunning Botanical Hotspot: Waylands Wildflower Reserve in Darling, South Africa – GardenistaThere are many reasons to visit South Africa, but for anyone whose heart beats faster for flowers, there is this hint: Take a deep breath, exhale slowly, and…
Read more A Stunning Botanical Hotspot: Waylands Wildflower Reserve in Darling, South Africa – GardenistaThis 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 TidyStrike one: a house in need of a major renovation. Strike two: a garden in need of love. Strike three: a remodel that left the surrounding landscape decimated.…
Read more A Stunning Garden in North Haven, NY, by DeMauro + DeMauroDowny 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 WildflowerWhen 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 landscapeLet us count the many reasons we love Butter Wakefield, the Maryland-born, London-based garden designer who has won numerous prestigious awards for her exuberant projects (twice at the…
Read more Butter Wakefield: An Interview with the London Garden DesignerBlue 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, it’s a binary…
Read more Blue Flax: How to Grow and Care for Linum Lewisii, A Wildflower Native to the Western StatesMy wildflower front yard has turned my house into the talk of the town. Everyone loves it! What was once a drab, uneven, and neglected lawn has turned…
Read more From Lawn to Urban Meadow: My Alternative Lawn Guide – Garden TherapyThis 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…
Read more Leslie Needham Design: 8 Ideas to Steal from Her Gardens in Bedford, NYAre you searching for the best flower quotes and flower captions? This list has over one hundred beautiful flower sayings and inspirational floral quotes to lift your mood…
Read more 115 beautiful flower quotes & flower captions for instagram – Growing FamilyWhen my friend and colleague Margot Guralnick and I set out to write The Low-Impact Home, we had many discussions with Remodelista founder Julie Carlson about whether our…
Read more Beyond the Meadows: An Inspiring New Book by the Homesteaders Behind KrautkopfRewilding doesn’t mean doing nothing. According to Wong, rewilding your land means rethinking how we garden and seeing ourselves as stewards of the land. Instead of trying to…
Read more Tama Matsuoka Wong’s ‘Into the Weeds: How to Garden Like a Forager’Wildflower season is a magical time that draws visitors and residents alike to area hiking trails in search of bursts of natural color. Lucky for us, Phoenix is…
Read more The best desert wildflower hikes in metro PhoenixCreate a fun and beautiful holiday neighbor gift with wildflower seeds A few years ago, I gave a friend (and neighbor) a wildflower seed packet as a thank…
Read more Holiday Neighbor Gift: Wildflower Seed PacketsCreate a fun and beautiful holiday neighbor gift with wildflower seeds A few years ago, I gave a friend (and neighbor) a wildflower seed packet as a thank…
Read more Holiday Neighbor Gift: Wildflower Seed PacketsCreate a fun and beautiful holiday neighbor gift with wildflower seeds A few years ago, I gave a friend (and neighbor) a wildflower seed packet as a thank…
Read more Holiday Neighbor Gift: Wildflower Seed Packets
