January/ February 2023

Horticulture

Horticulture Magazine

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Editor’s Note
Happy New Year! How is it already time again to reflect on a passing year and make plans for the next? As I look back on 2022 in my own garden, my area’s critical-level drought looms as the overwhelming theme. The drought brought frustration and disa
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The Art & Science of Smart Gardening Editor Meghan ShinnContributing Editor Jennifer Howell COLUMNISTS Scott Beuerlein | Thomas Christopher | Greg CoppaJeff Cox | Niki Jabbour | Mary Purpura DESIGN Associate Art Director Carrie Topp Executive Editor
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Dry Times
THE SUMMER OF ’22 brought severe drought to much of the US. In my section of southern New England we saw virtually no rain from June 21 to the beginning of September. I faithfully hand-watered lawn and garden whenever it was allowed. Still, in the su
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Deborah Hardwick
DEBORAH HARDWICK GROWS thousands of clematis cultivars at her central Ohio garden, Hardwick Hall. She has become known for her expertise in tending these beloved plants, which she believes suffer a fussy reputation that hasn’t been helped by complica
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Winning Plants
ALL-AMERICA SELECTIONS is a trialing program for new perennials, annuals and edible plants. The volunteer judges are horticulture professionals who grow and observe the plants for one to three growing seasons in roughly 80 test gardens across the Uni
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‘Elizabeth’ Magnolia
DURING 2023, THIS COLUMN will be describing plants so beautiful or interesting that they deserve to be featured in the garden or landscape as specimens on their own, rather than mixed into a group. Let’s start off the series with a small tree that de
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New Life
I AM CONVINCED that the greatest, most important challenge of our time is fixing our relationship with nature. And gardeners are ideally poised to lead the way. We need all Americans to recognize the need to take constructive action on restoring our
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The Best Year Yet
THE OFFICIAL START to spring may still be a few months away, but for me, spring garden planning begins in January. This is the month I sketch out planting plans, make lists of what I want to grow and start to place seed orders. I also pull out my see
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Cheers To Chartreuse
Green comes in many forms, from dark and subtle to bright and vibrant. Chartreuse is far from subtle; a combination of green and yellow, it can look electric. To some people, leaves of this hue look anemic, but for many of us the color adds another e
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A Good Start
ONE OF THE WAYS we deepen our relationship with the natural world is through tending the corners of it that touch us. As gardeners, we compost food scraps to keep them out of the landfill and to provide rich nutrition to our plants. We grow pollen- a
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Play With Your Food!
The idea that vegetable gardening could be playful may be hard to grasp. But vegetable gardening can become more fun if viewed through the lens of play, and through that approach, the gardener can reap all the benefits of playtime that many of us, pa
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A Brighter VIEW
Mari and Hank Mitchel loved their garden in Montecito, Calif. Mari collaborated with a good friend and fellow member of The Garden Club of Santa Barbara, landscape architect Puck Erickson-Lohnas, to create the space, which she describes as “fairylike
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HOLDING Water
Clean water is precious. Thankfully, rain gardens are a useful—and beautiful—tool to help keep water systems healthy. These deceptively simple plantings filter runoff from impervious surfaces, conserve the resource and prevent the standing water that
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Up And Comers Part 2
Solenostemon scutellarioides ‘Baltazlord’ Ball Flora Plant With their spreading habit, TrailBlazer coleus suit hanging baskets, large containers and beds. They flower very late or never, keeping their foliage strong all summer. TrailBlazer Glory Road
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Heavy Lifting, Weighty Thinking
DEPENDING ON THE DAY, hour or moment, I describe myself as either late-stage middle-aged or early-onset elderly. So, here, somewhere in my golden, waning days, I approach lifting heavy things much differently than I did when I might have been describ
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Winter Reading
by Mary ReynoldsTimber Press, 2022 In We Are the ARK, Mary Reynolds argues for a radical shift in how and why we garden. Reading that sentence, you may assume the book is an angry or preachy one, but in fact it is not. Reynolds is passionate about h

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