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traditional plants, traditional practices: ‘the heirloom gardener,’ with john forti

WHEN I SAW NEWS of a popular new garden book called “The Heirloom Gardener,” I thought it would be about growing vegetables or flowers of..

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fall garden tips, from cleanup to composting to fig-tree storage, from lee reich

WHAT ARE THE forward-looking steps in your fall garden routine—the most important tasks you take now to get your garden tucked in, that really focus..

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monocots (and other geeky ways to collect plants and design gardens), with ken druse

‘WHAT DO YOU want to talk about when we tape our next podcast segment, I asked Ken Druse the other day, and his answer was..

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smarter composting (+ some gimmicks to maybe skip) with u.s. composting council’s cary oshins

HAVE YOU MADE room in the compost heap for all that incoming organic material about to be created during your fall cleanup? Compost is today’s..

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native shrubs and small trees, with marc wolf of mountain top arboretum

I’M ALWAYS LOOKING for more places to tuck native plantings. My current mission is along my property edges, where I’m adding a more complex layer..

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why and when to divide perennials, with ken druse (and tales of his latest flood)

I’VE BEEN SCOUTING around in my garden for orphaned plants, ones that used to be in visually pleasing clumps or masses, but because of expanding..

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winter sowing of native plants, with heather mccargo of wild seed project

TIME FOR A LESSON in winter sowing—sowing seeds in fall and early winter outside in a protected spot, a sort of easy DIY home nursery..

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matching light to houseplants, with house plant journal’s darryl cheng

THE DAYS are getting shorter, and in my Northern garden, they’re growing cooler, too. I know my houseplants will be screaming soon to come back..

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caterpillar clinic (plus magnolia scale), with the morton arboretum’s julie janoski

TODAY’S GUEST answers even more Urgent Garden Questions each year than I do, in her role as Plant Clinic manager at The Morton Arboretum in..

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vegetable diseases: basil and cucurbit downy mildews, with cornell’s meg mcgrath

HERE’S HOW my head, which is always lost in the garden, I guess, works: The first thing I thought about when the pandemic started—when we..

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dividing and editing perennials, with wethersfield’s toshi yano

MAYBE YOU, like I do, have certain perennial beds that could use editing and some particular plants that need dividing in the process. That’s just..

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how texture and variegation beat august’s garden lull, with ken druse

KEN DRUSE called the other day to say that he and his garden have the August lulls. The sort of annual dog days experience when..

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stay safe: horticultural vinegar and how to read any pesticide label, with noelle orloff

IN A RECENT industry newsletter, I saw a link to a story about the herbicide called horticultural vinegar, and clicked on it. And then, realizing..

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native ferns and how to propagate them, with uli lorimer

BY THE TIME we hit August, some plants in the garden are a little beat up—or have at least needed deadheading, or even wholesale cutting..

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the mint family and some unexpected members, with ken druse

DON’T ANSWER this question too quickly; take your time and think it over. How many mints are you growing in your garden? When Ken Druse..

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‘best friend’ tropical plants, with marianne willburn

I WAS AT THE local garden center the other day, when a truck full of tropical plants was being unloaded. And in the heat of..

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‘birdpedia,’ with chris leahy

HOW MANY BIRD SPECIES are there in the world and how many individual birds? And how do you even try to count? Do bird sweat,..

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