Old Farmer’s Almanac Garden Guide
Culinary herbs look good, smell good, taste good and attract pollinators and other beneficial insects, so don’t hide them in the herb garden, use them throughout the landscape. (A new talk on this topic is in development, so stay tuned)
Old Farmer’s Almanac Garden Guide
There’s no need to plant invasive or boring groundcovers with these attractive, problem-solving garden-worthy colonizers.
Old Farmer’s Almanac Garden Guide
Cold-hardy greens that prefer cool weather give me the fixings for salads and healthful, delicious stir fries, soups and casseroles well into winter and again in early spring. Sometimes fall plantings even overwinter, right under the snow.
Old Farmer’s Almanac Garden Guide
When I call my back yard a garden for mountain goats, people think I’m kidding until they see for themselves. Here are tips, tricks and strategies for gardening on a slope, and how I learned to make an uphill struggle easier.
Westchester Home
Ecological designer Larry Weaner created a native plant landscape and designed meadow around a formal, traditionally landscaped home.
Westchester Home
A couple’s 25-year collaboration with legendary landscape architect Patrick Chasse brought into being 70 acres of intriguing spaces and carefully edited views on an idyllic country property.
Timber Press West Coast landscape designer Beth O’Donnell Young teamed up with East Coast gardener and garden photographer Karen Bussolini to teach homeowners how to landscape more sustainably by working with rather than against nature.
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(The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center)
Sustainable landscaping isn’t so hard, and every yard can have a positive environmental effect. Here’s how I transformed a sterile front yard in a suburban neighborhood into a beneficial and beautiful habitat for wildlife and people alike. This is my manifesto and life’s purpose as an eco-friendly garden coach – anyone can do it!
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(The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center)
There is niche for a native sedge in just about any landscape, from dry shade to sopping wet and sunny spots. Explore using these graceful grass-like workhorses as specimens, ground covers, shady lawns, under-plantings or streambank-holding erosion control.
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(The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center)
Native holly trees and shrubs provide winter interest, cheer up dark days and provide food and cover for birds and other wildlife.