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Favorite Past Garden Columns Category

The Best New Perennial Flowers of 2025

January 28th, 2025

   A new line of high-performing mixed-species peonies, a super-sized new salvia, and several new varieties of pollinator favorites highlight the list of interesting new perennials debuting in the 2025 growing season.    Growers, local garden centers, and other plant experts picked the following 12 choices for my annual January four-part, best-new-plants series.    The […]

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The Best New Annual Flowers of 2025

January 21st, 2025

   A butterfly-magnet new ageratum, a shrub-turned-annual-flower called dampiera, and a new sunflower with a thousand blooms headline the list of interesting new annual flowers debuting in the 2025 growing season.    Growers, local garden centers, and other plant experts picked those and more for the four-part, best-new-plants series that I compile each January – […]

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The Best New Vegetables, Herbs, and Fruits of 2025

January 14th, 2025

   It’s another new year, and the garden is waiting in the wings to be filled in just a few months with fresh, home-grown produce.    This is a good planning time – not only to order seeds for the 2025 edible garden but also to hone in on the best varieties of vegetables, herbs, […]

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Gardening Trends of 2025

January 7th, 2025

   Nature-friendly gardening seems to be graduating from mere trend to a lasting and widespread mainstream movement.    That’s the prevailing development that gardening trend-watchers see as we head into 2025, with interrelated facets of that movement – including native plants, pollinator gardens, and less-perfect lawns – all growing and dominating how we view yard […]

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All We Gardeners Want for Christmas Is…

December 3rd, 2024

   If Santa Claus could work his magic in the garden like he does in the toy shop, what would gardeners want him to deliver?    Better weather would certainly be high on the wish list. Who else gripes more about the weather (too wet, too dry, too hot, too cold, too humid, etc.) than […]

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Landscape Improving, Stage Three

November 5th, 2024

   A landscape is never ever really “done,” as any experienced gardener will tell you.    However, the never-ending waltz of caring for a yard – and especially the amply landscaped variety – fits into one of three stages.    Stage one is the beginning of the line – or the end of the line, […]

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Keep An Eye on Those Boxwoods

October 22nd, 2024

   If you’re growing any boxwoods in your yard, you might want to make a note to check them starting next spring for the latest deadly threat facing our top-selling shrub.    A new bug called the box tree moth officially entered Pennsylvania this fall.    The state Agriculture Department confirmed reports of the bug’s […]

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So How Do Those Controversial New Purple Tomatoes Grow and Taste?

September 24th, 2024

   I’ve been eating dozens of bioengineered purple-fleshed fruits of the new Purple Tomato for two months now, and so far I can report that I’m not taking on any snapdragon characteristics.    I say that facetiously because this first-year variety is controversial for being the first bioengineered or “GMO” (genetically modified organism) vegetable being […]

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Fruition Seeds Stops Selling, Plans to Give Away Its Seed Instead

August 27th, 2024

   The upstate New York seed company, Fruition Seeds, is taking a rather radical step for any business.    As of today, the producer of organic, Northeast-adapted vegetable, herb, and flower seed is shutting down its online seed sales and moving to what co-owner Petra Page-Mann terms a “gift culture.”    From now on, Fruition […]

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Award-Winning Plants of 2024

April 9th, 2024

   Organizations of growers, horticulturists, researchers, and other plant experts each year bestow assorted awards on what they believe to be the best of the best plants.    Some of these award-winners are new introductions. Others are under-known or under-appreciated oldies-but-goodies that deserve more use in home gardens.    Here’s a look at plants that […]

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