How Now Brown Tree?
January 12th, 2013
Don’t be too quick to give up on an evergreen that’s browning. Sometimes they’ll recover if intense heat was the culprit. But a conifer that’s brown all over most likely already has been dead for weeks.
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Favorite Past Garden Columns Category
The Perils of Pass-along Plants
January 11th, 2013
You might be tempted to accept every last gift plant you’re offered, and you may end up with some great — and free — plants. But you also may end up with someone else’s invader. Here’s how to tell the difference…
Garden Wishes for Santa
December 18th, 2012
What would gardeners want from Santa? How about a groundhog-eating rabbit, no-prune plants with an off button or maybe even some halfways decent weather for a change?
Picking a Fresh Christmas Tree… and Keeping It That Way
November 21st, 2012
Make sure you pick a fresh Christmas tree to start with, and then follow these steps to keep the needles on your tree through Christmas.
A Threat to Garden Tours?
November 13th, 2012
An accident during a Connecticut home garden tour led to a threatened lawsuit that not only ended a 20-year-old charity event but may make people think twice before agreeing to open their garden gates to a garden tour.
What Plants Know
October 23rd, 2012
Israeli bioscientist Daniel Chamovitz says plants are more like people than we think. They can see, talk, smell and even remember in their own curious way. Here’s a look at what a plant really “knows…”
Love ‘Em and Leave ‘Em
October 23rd, 2012
Why do we pay to have our leaves hauled away and then turn around and buy mulch, soil amendments and fertilizer? It makes more sense to me to keep our leaves on site…
Make Your Own Free Plants
October 16th, 2012
No need to let your tender plants croak when frost hits. Many of them are easy to start from cuttings, which lets you overwinter “babies” inside that become “mothers” for a ton of new freebies next spring. Here’s how…
Inside George’s Garden Tour
September 11th, 2012
What happens when George’s yard is the subject of a garden tour? First, buckets of sweat, then a debate between “cute” and the plants.
Doom for impatiens?
August 21st, 2012
A virulent new strain of downy mildew disease threatens to wipe impatiens off our gardening map. And that’s a shame because this plant is our favorite annual and our go-to choice for shade.