March/April 2023

Horticulture

Horticulture Magazine

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Editor’s Note
Are you excited for spring? I am! This will be my family’s fourth year gardening at our home, and I’m looking forward to seeing the landscape changes we’ve made so far continue to mature. Despite the thought I’ve put into designing our front-yard gar
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In Germany, A Gardener’s Heaven
I’VE OFTEN WONDERED what it would mean to live in a place where the benefits of contact with plants, the natural world and healthy outdoor environments are widely accepted and appreciated, where gardening and its kindred activities are all considered
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Garden Groundwork
WHERE I GARDEN, in March and April it can feel like spring one day, and the next we’re getting walloped with a snowstorm! I use these months to prep the garden, get organized and sow seeds. I’ve learned that the best way to optimize my growing space
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Allen Bush
ALLEN BUSH is a plantsman who sold rare and unusual perennials through his own nursery, Holbrook Farm, before joining Jelitto Perennial Seeds, a Germany-based company that provides seed to nurseries, seed retailers and gardeners. Allen expanded Jelit
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The Thinking Bee
AS A GARDENER, I’m gradually finding my way to a new appreciation of insects. When I was learning this craft 50 years ago, I regarded any creature of that sort as a threat, something to be greeted with toxic sprays. I gravitated toward plants adverti
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Dependable Perennials
The garden has an ebb and flow. May comes on like a beautiful tsunami of color. But then it doesn’t rain quite enough. Or it rains too much, and there’s a fungal problem over in this corner of the garden. Wait a minute—this is not what I signed on fo
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Chaste Tree
HOW IRONIC that one of the most exuberantly floriferous plants in our gardens is Vitex agnus-castus—the chaste tree. There’s nothing chaste about its libidinous explosion of eight-to-ten-inch lilac to lavender panicles at almost every branch tip from
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Looking Up
At winter’s end, what could be more welcome than an explosion—even a rather quiet one—of flowers at eye level? Early-blooming deciduous trees and shrubs provide just that, energizing us gardeners when their branches, often still devoid of leaves, mak
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Woodland Wizardry
In one of my earliest memories, we’re driving to my family’s cabin and I can see vast swaths of trillium in bloom along the highway. The effect was stunning, with the flowering plants creating the appearance of a white carpet on the forest floor. Tri
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Vining for Attention
Whether scrambling up a wall, entwining a fence or draping a pergola with shade, climbing plants contribute both style and function in the garden. But vines must be selected carefully, as many are naturally aggressive. Choices popular in the past hav
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From Seedto Seedling
Seeds are programmed to grow, but sometimes they seem stubborn. Remember these tips to increasing the odds of successful sprouting: Seeds are alive, and the energy stores they contain deplete over time. Before sowing seeds leftover from prior years
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Prioritization: THE KEY TO RESPONSIBLE GARDENING
WE ALL KNOW THAT OUR GARDENS are great places to enjoy beauty and commune with nature. Equally, we’ve learned they are great places to stress out. Reasons for stressing out in the garden range from our gardens providing little beauty to enjoy to cert
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Not Grand, But Still Great
OVER THE YEARS I have visited many “estate gardens” in the United States and abroad. I have always been intrigued with the concept of a garden where the owner can act on any whim and proceed to collect, study, cultivate, hybridize or propagate whatev

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