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Growing Greener

Sep 28, 2022

Cathy Ludden epitomizes the role individual gardeners can play in transforming their local landscapes to meet our current environmental challenges.  An avid student of native plants and wildlife, she has worked with great success at a personal, neighborhood, and county level to make her community biologically richer,...


Sep 21, 2022

Inheritor of a century-old family tradition of supplying the best spring-flowering bulbs to American gardeners, Brent Heath details the important role that they can play in today’s sustainable gardens.  Flourishing without the use of chemicals, these plants furnish reliable early spring color and food for early season...


Sep 14, 2022

Fostering wildlife and native plants – making our landscapes contributors to the local ecosystem – has become a goal of so many gardeners.  In her new book, “Wild By Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration,” Laura J. Martin traces how this became so.  Introducing a remarkable band of ecologically...


Sep 7, 2022

American gardeners typically turn to England when looking for inspiration abroad, but they’ll find a far more imaginative approach to integrating nature with human needs in contemporary Dutch gardening.  Carrie Preston, an American designer who has made a career there, takes us for a tour.