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Bare: Get creative for your valentine
You might not want to listen to me today. I'm about to suggest that you give your Valentine something other than a dozen roses. It might get you in trouble.
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With the right light, you could grow citrus, coffee, cinnamon and pepper
Connecticut may not be the first place that comes to mind when the topic is tropical fruit — unless you know about Logee's Tropical Plants.
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Your garden can start inside now
You may not be thinking much about spring, but you should.
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An exotic beauty
Madagascar. The name rolls around in your mouth with a lyrical exoticism.
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This winter, blooming timetable is disrupted
Growing up in Maryland, there were two things that could be counted on as indisputable evidence that spring would soon arrive. The first was the return of robins, a bird that doesn't seem to bother to migrate from our area. The second was the flowering of Japanese or flowering quince, Chaenomeles speciosa. It was usually about March or the beginning of April when these rosy-pink flowers started to unfurl, the first suggestion of color in the landscape.
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Community swap event promotes the preservation of diverse plants
Gardening events for 2012 start out with a bang when Slow Food Piedmont and Old Salem Museums and Gardens combine for a community seed swap on Jan. 14.
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Bring the garden to the party
The garden is sleepy and cold, and as the year ends, it's time for quiet reflection and celebration. In the garden, we can seek both.
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The history of mistletoe
If you're riding down Country Club or Reynolda roads, and you are suddenly taken with the urge to kiss your driver, blame it on the mistletoe overhead. The celebrated, pucker-inspiring holiday plant is thriving in the canopy overhanging these roads.
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Make your library grow with 4 new garden books
The movement toward growing your own food continues to gather momentum. This is reflected in this year's selection of gardening books.
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Endlessly fascinating orchids
Even seasoned gardeners fall under the spell of orchids.
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Getting the hang of hops farming
At first glance, one might mistake Ben Sunderman's farm for some sort of training grounds for acrobats. Twenty-foot utility poles are buried 4 feet in the ground and crossed by wires. Strings plummet from these to the ground. But closer inspection reveals that this apparatus supports a vine known as hops.
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As winter approaches, garden remains bountiful
Soon the winter will put this garden to bed, but for now it has ignored the little bit of cold weather in November. It has been a wonderful fall, and I have been thankful for every minute of it. Gardeners, for the most part, are a gracious bunch.
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Death and life of bees amid winter's frost
Lately, my garden has resembled LaGuardia Airport at rush hour. There has been about as much bee traffic as there has been air space to handle them. A constant hum has filled the air as the bees search for nectar.
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Caring for a garden provides a place to 'grow good food' and find a little therapy to ease
Betty Davis believes in celebrating holidays and seasons.
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Sanford — 90 miles away — is home to a N.C. flower farm many gardeners consider a destination
Fall is an excellent time for a garden makeover. Whether you are adding to an existing border or bed, or starting a new planting plan, autumn supplies what is needed to get plants off to a good start.
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Tiny bulbs offer colorful impact at end of winter
This is the time to plant bulbs. If you are sifting through the catalogs, don't overlook the little guys. Crocuses, snowdrops, dwarf irises and others are only a few inches tall, but arriving at the end of winter, they can make a big impact. Many of these appear before the tulips and daffodils think about showing their colors, and they are all the more treasured for it.
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Rain gardens deal with environmental issues
A rain garden is a deceptively simple-looking element. A swale backed by a berm, a rain garden may appear as an island of plants or look like a pond in the process of going back to dry land.
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HarvestFest raises hunger awareness
The partnership between the Betty and Jim Holmes Food Bank Garden and the Second Harvest Food Bank has been working for 13 years.
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Southern roots of nation's scenery
The conference "Restoring Southern Landscapes and Gardens" will return to Winston-Salem for the 18th time, Sept. 22-24.
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For the eager gardener, fast-growing arugula satisfies
"Impatient" and "gardener" are not two words that fit together well. Still, there are those of us who want to sow seeds and have results three days later.
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Sprawling Wachovia Garden plants seeds of community and sustainability
It's that time of year in the garden when summer's heat and exuberance mingle with a tang of decline. Plants are laden with a burden of fruit, and the humid air is heavy with the work of bees and aggravating mosquitoes.
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Spread seeds around the globe
The term guerilla gardening comes from the 1970s. Citizens took derelict land in New York into their own hands and started to create gardens.
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Plants are the garden's barometer of seasonal change
Though summer seems to drag on interminably, gardeners know that August marks a transitional period.
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Hibiscus provides a long-lasting show in the wild and in your garden
Botanists like to bust plants up into convenient groups for classification purposes. One of those groups is the malvaceae, or mallow family. It is a group of ornamental and economic importance.
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Imported pests eating away at our native flora
You can add one more pest to the ever-expanding list of insults to our native trees and forests.
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