Though I love my vegetable garden, as a horticulturist my first “plant love” was perennials....
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Pollinator-friendly plants
Shrubs for pollinators: 5 bloom-filled choices for bees and butterflies
Pollinator gardening is powerful stuff. While natural pollinator habitat diminishes and the effects...
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The monarch butterfly host plant: Milkweeds and how to grow them from seed
Winter doesn’t necessarily seem like the best time to be starting seeds outdoors in most of...
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Four flowers for the vegetable garden
In the gardens of my childhood, there were always pots of geraniums, petunias,...
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5 late-blooming pollinator-friendly plants
I’ve been working hard over the past few years to incorporate as many late-blooming pollinator...
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