November/December 2022

Horticulture

Horticulture Magazine

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Editor’s Note
The end of the year is approaching, inspiring us all to reflect on the past and plan for the future. In this issue of Horticulture, you’ll find articles that can help you do just that in your gardening life. It has been a while since we last featured
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The Art & Science of Smart Gardening Editor Meghan ShinnContributing Editor Jennifer Howell COLUMNISTS Scott Beuerlein | Thomas Christopher | Greg Coppa Jeff Cox | Niki Jabbour | Mary Purpura DESIGN Associate Art Director Carrie Topp Executive Edito
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What I’ve Learned
NOW I STAND before gardens and nature’s wild placwes as I did as a seven-year-old facing my elementary school teachers. They seemed to know everything. I knew very little. Over the years, I absorbed most of what was in the syllabus. But though I’ve s
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Finders, Eaters
ONE OF THE WONDERS of gardening is the reliable generosity of the earth, sun and plants themselves, which offer up fruits, leaves, berries, seeds and roots for our delight and sustenance year after year. In return, all we need to do is keep the soil
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A Pot Of Patience
I’VE ALWAYS PREFERRED starting my garden plants from seed, and a recent conversation with Anna Fialkoff on my Growing Greener podcast has opened up new horizons in that respect. Anna is the Ecological Programs Manager of the Wild Seed Project in Nort
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the GARDENER’S GIFT GUIDE
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Your Holiday Shopping Starts Here!
Supercharge your garden-to-table lifestyle with this vegetable collection that showcases varieties easy to grow in containers and inspires space-efficient gardening. Shop exclusive offerings! Everything a sprout-lover needs to grow sprouts all ye
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Claudia West
CLAUDIA WEST is a planting designer who looks to natural plant communities to inform and inspire her work, which combines evocative beauty and real ecological functions. She and co-author Thomas Rainer described this design approach in Planting in a
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a Fresh Start
During our search for a new house last year, my wife and I developed a strategy when visiting potential properties. Carrie and our rea-estate agent would go in the front door to evaluate the house while I assessed the garden. As they reviewed the flo
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HOME Of The GREEN
The evergreen shrubs profiled in this article are largely adaptable across a range of conditions. For reference, here are the species’ native distributions and habitats. Eastern red cedar (Juniperus virginiana) Woods’ edges and openings, prairies, pa
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EMERALDS Of The ROUGH
Evergreen shrubs and trees provide structure, screening and four-season interest for our foundation borders—a backbone, so to speak. But what happens when said backbone gets bent out of shape? Increasingly, deer just love a buffet of evergreen favori
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The Beauty of “And”
Heidi Heiland has made a career—indeed a life—out of gardening. She says it’s something she fell into as a teenager, but perhaps it was meant to be. Her great-grandmother gardened on an East Coast property designed by Ellen Biddle Shipman, one of the
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Up And Comers Part 1
Look for part two of this feature coming in Horticulture’s January/February 2023 issue. There we’ll detail new perennials for shade, annuals, tropical plants and vegetables. Hydrangea ‘18/1’ Southern Living Plant Collection/Sunset Plant Collection Th
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It’s Elementary
Full disclosure: This article is about a garden the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden made as part of a community project in conjunction with the Cincinnati Reds and its partners. I’ll try to be objective. Even if I’m not, I think you’ll understand w
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The Peril Of Self-pollination
WITHOUT BUMBLEBEES, a flowering plant that can self-pollinate lost substantial genetic variation within only nine generations, an experimental study recently found. In the study, a group of “selfing” monkeyflower plants lost 13 to 24 percent of their
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Don’t Plant It!
IN A YARD in which I’ve been puttering and landscaping for nearly twoscore and ten years, I finally must admit that there are a couple handfuls of flora that I wish I’d never planted or passively allowed to colonize. This realization was thrust upon
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Green means GO!
IT WAS A SATURDAY MORNING about five years ago, and I was driving to Home Depot to buy a new toilet seat. I was feeling pretty blue. I was feeling tired, old and fat, but mostly fat, because I had just broken a toilet seat. And I was thinking how muc

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