September/October 2023

Horticulture

Horticulture Magazine

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Editor’s Note
Breaking news: After 23 years of listening to me go on about plants, my husband, John, is becoming a gardener. All because of a bag of bulbs. And possibly a power tool. Last October I visited Peggy Anne Montgomery and Dan Benarcik at their Delaware h
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Doublefile Viburnum
I’D SEEN PHOTOS IN of doublefile viburnum (Viburnum plicatum f. tomentosum ‘Mariesii’), but they never really caught my attention. Then one day—I think it was at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pa.—I saw one in full flower in real life. I was ast
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The Garden’s Good Vibes
WE’RE ALL FAMILIAR with the physical benefits of gardening. Actions like squatting down to plant seedlings in the ground and bending over to tie tomato branches to vertical supports provide opportunities for stretching and gentle exercise. Hauling an
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The Art & Science of Smart Gardening Editor Meghan Shinn Contributing Editor Jennifer Howell COLUMNISTS Scott Beuerlein | Thomas Christopher | Greg Coppa Jeff Cox | Niki Jabbour | Mary Purpura DESIGN Associate Art Director Carrie Topp Executive Edit
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The Mulch Is Alive
THOMAS CHRISTOPHER is a garden designer and writer based in Connecticut. His Growing Greener podcast, which informs this column, features leaders in ecological gardening. Listen at http://www.thomaschristophergardens.com. A DEAD MULCH or a live one?
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Outwit Winter
THE ARRIVAL OF AUTUMN doesn’t have to mean an end to the homegrown harvest. In fact, I harvest a wide variety of vegetables in fall and even into winter, protecting them with season extenders like cold frames or mini hoop tunnels. The key to success
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Kelly Norris
KELLY NORRIS is an award-winning horticulturist and writer whose books include New Naturalism: Designing and Planting a Resilient, Ecologically Vibrant Home Garden (Cool Springs Press, 2021). He designs gardens that explore the relationships between
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Stepping Toward The Sustainable
When I began my professional gardening career over 25 years ago, ideas of sustainability in gardening and garden design were relatively unknown. Home gardeners were more familiar with the magic of Miracle-Gro and the Scotts Turf Builder program than
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Worlds Combine
A small lot can provide ample space for a diehard gardener to explore diverse plants and styles. Andrew Bunting’s home garden in Swarthmore, Pa., (USDA Zone 7a) proves this point. Bunting is a garden professional whose 40-year career includes time wo
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No Ordinary Lawn
In only a few hours one cool autumn morning, horticulturists Peggy Anne Montgomery and Dan Benarcik transformed their Delaware home’s front lawn from “just grass” to a bee’s spring paradise. How? They planted a bulb lawn, installing low-growing, wint
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Floral Finale
When Stacy Ling and her family moved homes in late 2021, she left behind carefully crafted gardens but gained a landscape ripe for intervention. Their new property in central New Jersey offered many garden rooms made distinct by a hillside setting, m
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Fragrant Favorites
Since time immemorial, people have dreamed of and collected beautiful fragrances in the garden. The nose, well, knows! Fragrant garden classics like gardenia, potted tuberose, roses or lilac bushes need little introduction, but there are many other s
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Legendary Logee’s
I HAVE ALWAYS harbored an inexplicable desire (perhaps a minor obsession?) to grow “zone-denying plants.” I seek them out and tend to them until there are too many of them, or they grow too big for the house, or they display an unforeseen and sometim
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Plants We Love
FALL OFFERS PRIME PLANTING season for trees and shrubs, which appreciate the season’s warm soil, cool nights and increased rainfall as they settle into their new landscape locations. These conditions tend to mean less input from the gardener post-pla
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The Horticopter
THIS PAST JUNE we left town for three days just as the runaway train called spring was beginning to slow down. Before leaving I did my morning garden walk-through, per usual. Then we drove away, and then we drove back. Got home Sunday afternoon. Gone

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