Summer is a great season for gardening, but when it comes to the greenery we keep indoors, it’s also a time when houseplants risk getting neglected and even dying (hey, we’ve all been there). Chances ...
Anyone who has ever been lucky enough to visit Raymond Blanc’s hotel and restaurant, Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons in the ...
Native plant lovers, a holiday gift is yours for the asking. A beautiful full-color paperback, “Native Plants for Southeast Virginia including Hampton Roads Region,” is hot off the press. ” Until more ...
Answer: I love this question. In summer 2018, Extension Master Gardener Lin Yeskie was looking for recommendations while revamping a Master Gardener volunteer library. So, I wrote a column about my ...
When it comes to bestsellers, cracking the code for their success is usually a fairly straight line: A famous person writes a juicy tell-all, a hit series has its latest instalment, BookTok makes a ...
It's never been a better time to be a Plant Parent. There are Instagram handles devoted to houseplant trends, designer watering cans, custom plant delivery services, moisture sensing kits, and now — ...
Back when I only visited the countryside occasionally, I suffered from what botanists call “plant blindness,” described by Zoë Schlanger in her entertaining new book, The Light Eaters, as “the ...
The idea that plants might be intelligent, and endowed with human abilities such as seeing, feeling, hearing and decision-making, has, until now, mostly been the stuff of science fiction or the ...
Noelle Johnson moved from coastal California to the desert in 1986, and everything she planted in her new garden died. She wasn't used to the extremes of Arizona's hot and dry climate and neither were ...