May/June 2021

Horticulture

Horticulture Magazine

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Editor Meghan Shinn Contributing Editor Jennifer Howell Scott Beuerlein | Thomas Christopher | Greg Coppa Jeff Cox | Niki Jabbour Associate Art Director Carrie Topp Executive Editor Kristin Beane Sullivan Executive Art Director Eric Flynn Digita
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Editor’s Note
I’ve been thinking lately about the garden as something that’s shared. My family calls our outdoor space “Mom’s garden” or “Meg’s garden,” but they all like to help in it, and to contribute ideas—from the easily agreed upon butterfly border to a pool
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Shannon Currey
AN INTEREST IN PLANTS led Shannon Currey to shift careers. In her current role as Marketing Director for Hoffman Nursery, which grows and supplies ornamental grasses to garden centers across the United States, Shannon has developed a deep familiarity
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Going Places
Sarah P. Duke Gardens Durham, NC Chanticleer Garden Wayne, PA Coastal Maine Botanic Garden Boothbay, ME Portland Japanese Garden Portland, OR Denver Botanic Garden Denver, CO Montreal Botanical Garden Montreal, Quebec, Canada Mount Usher Garden
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On Shannon’s Shelf
When asked the three best gardening books she’s recently read, Shannon recommended: Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World by Emma Marris (Bloomsbury USA, 2013) Cultivating Chaos: How to Enrich Landscapes with Self-Seeding Plants b
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Go-to Grasses
‘Black Mountain’ bluestem (Andropogon ternarius ‘Black Mountain’): A compact version of the species, this selection was discovered growing naturally in a North Carolina pasture. It’s a tidy, drought-tolerant grass reaching to three feet tall in bloom
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The Ants Go Marching
HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED how important ants are for agriculture and soils? They do not get much credit for their contribution toward our planet Earth. Moreover, many people dislike them, don’t we? We certainly don’t appreciate them in our homes—or on o
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Bean Talk
THE BEAN TUNNELS in my raised-bed vegetable garden are a focal point, but they’re also practical structures that provide strong support to the vigorous vines of pole beans. Pole beans generally grow six to nine feet long, depending on the variety, an
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Spring Checklist
Seed! While the bulk of indoor seed starting is finished, don’t turn off your grow lights for summer. Instead, use them to produce seedlings for succession planting. Also, direct sow seeds for warm-season vegetables like cucumbers, squash and beans w
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Cherish The Land
IMMIGRANTS HAVE ALWAYS been the backbone of the gardening profession in the United States, and as such they’ve played a major role in shaping our attitudes about the landscape. In this respect, Wambui Ippolito, whom I interviewed late last year for m
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Family Ties
FOR MANY YEARS, horticulturists and agronomists understood the interaction of plant roots and mycorrhizal fungi to be symbiotic; that is, a mutually beneficial relationship where the fungus, which can’t manufacture its own sugar, lives on that exuded
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All The Difference
According to a 2016 report by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, there are more than 360,000 species of flowering plants in the world. There are probably tens of thousands that could thrive where you live. Yet take a walk through almost any residential
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A Word For The West
The impetus for this article came from my observations around my Ohio neighborhood and discussions with Wooster Arboretum’s Paul Snyder. Our plant recommendations would have legs across much of the eastern United States and the Pacific Northwest. I t
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The Front Entry Garden
As a landscape designer for a well-respected suburban garden center, I fielded 60 to 70 residential design calls every year. Fully half of those visits included a discussion about the client’s foundation plantings; they wanted them renovated or repla
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Walk This Way
The best way to enhance the three-dimensional space and deliver the experience of a front-entry garden is to build an interesting walkway to the front door. Here are a few ideas you can use to turn your front walk into a true garden stroll: Landings
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Entry Garden Checklist
When designing a front-entry garden, make sure to tick these boxes: Draw attention to the front door. Provide glimpses of the façade and keep views through windows clear. Match the style of the garden to the architectural style of the house. For exam
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Personal Nature
For a designer, the first step toward creating a garden is meeting the client and seeing the garden space. I’ve learned to tread lightly when commenting on various plants I encounter in this initial meeting. I’m trying to avoid conversations that go
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Royal Flush
An antioxidant that protects the plant from environmental stressors—and provides health benefits to those who eat them. Purple vegetables are jewels of the edible garden. I’ve been gardening for more than 40 years, but I still show off my magenta c
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Fine A.R.T.S.
Roses are classic garden plants with vast emotional appeal. They’re familiar, nostalgic and symbolic. In recent decades they’ve shed their reputation of being fussy and prone to disease, thanks to groundbreaking cultivars like Knock Out (‘RADraz’), w
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ARTS Colony: A Sampler of Standout Roses
Introduced by Star Roses and Plants, this member of the Knock Out family grows three to four feet tall and wide. It is an ARTS Master Rose and a Local Artist in regions: From Weeks Roses, this floribunda type grows three to four feet tall by just u
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San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden
LOCATED ABOUT HALFWAY between Los Angeles and San Francisco, the San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden is a developing institution with a heartfelt mission: to honor and preserve our connection with nature. The garden aims to bolster horticulture, the art
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Design A Fire-safe Landscape
In recent years, California has experienced several devastating wildfires. As summer approaches, so does fire season, but carefully planned plantings can help protect a home from potential wildfires. Firewise landscapes depend on well-spaced, well-ma
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5 Favorite Plants For Fire-resistant Spaces
This highly drought-tolerant Californian shrub boasts tiny evergreen leaves and profuse blue flowers in spring. The species can grow large, but it takes very well to pruning, and compact cultivars exist. Full sun to part shade. USDA Zones 8–10. In f
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Unearthed!
THE 2020 GARDENING season in New England was particularly challenging, especially in Rhode Island. By August, parts of the Ocean State had received 10 or 11 inches less water than usual. Plantings of all kinds were stressed out, as were some plant ca
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Plants We Love
SPRING’S BLUE SKIES find a mirror in the beguiling flowers of these North America–native plants. In good growing conditions, all of these species will gently spread to form sweeps or splashes that suggest a waterway when the plants bloom. While these
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Change: Make It, Embrace It
YOU START OUT gardening young and optimistic; you happily toil many hours in the blazing open sun, tending every annual and perennial imaginable. One day things go fuzzy, and you awaken to find that your elderly neighbor saved your life by dragging y

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