Jul 27, 2022
Admirers of exotic garden plants have taken to claiming that their foreign-born treasures are just as good nutritionally for our North American pollinators. Proponents of native plants insist that their flora supplies a better diet. We ask Dr. Harland Patch of Pennsylvania State University for the facts
Jul 20, 2022
Managing water is the crucial task of the summertime garden, especially as climate change boosts the heat and the frequency of droughts. Join Nancy DuBrule-Clemente, founder of the pioneering woman-owned landscape company and garden center, Natureworks, as she brings her organic gardening sensibility to bear on ways to...
Jul 13, 2022
Looking at plants is one thing; learning to truly see them is another. Carrie Roy, Acting Curator of Art, introduces us to one of the world’s great collections of plant portraits, the Hunt Institute For Botanical Documentation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and shares how the artist’s vision can delight and...
Jul 6, 2022
Rebecca McMackin, a visionary horticulturist, has spent the last decade supervising the transformation of Brooklyn Bridge Park, 85 acres of abandoned shipping piers, into a complex of functioning ecosystems that serve as havens for wildlife and an accessible means for city dwellers to reconnect with nature. Now...