January/ February 2024

Horticulture

Horticulture Magazine

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Editor’s Note
When we were teenagers, my sister and I sometimes played a game with mail-order catalogs. There were a lot of these floating around in the ’90s, especially the type offering a random mix of clothes and household items. Potpourriis a good example, and
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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 ToppExecutive Editor
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Lessons From The Past
HAVE YOU EVER SHARED your love of gardens and gardening with children, your own or someone else’s? It can be as simple as showing a three-year-old how to make a snapdragon flower open and close its “mouth” or as involved as working with a third-grade
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Hortpourri
HERE IS MYoccasional collection of apparently unrelated gardening ramblings, this time associated with 2023’s winter and the subsequent growing season in southern New England. It helps me to write down such items to better prepare myself for future s
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Get It Growing
WHETHER YOU’LL BE breaking ground on your first garden come spring or you’re thinking of expanding an existing plot, there are many productive ways to grow vegetables. My own first garden was a small in-ground space that, while weedy, showed me just
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Brie Arthur
GARDENERS MAY RECOGNIZE Brie Arthur from her Brie the Plant Lady YouTube channel, where she shares advice from her home garden; from her books, The Foodscape Revolution and Gardening with Grains, which show how to incorporate edible crops within home
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New Plants
EACH YEAR, plant brands release exciting new cultivars to market, the results of years of breeding, selecting, trialing and propagating. New plants are bred to enhance traits that make them stand out against comparable cultivars—and in your garden. O
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Let’s Split It
One of my favorite lessons in the Fundamentals of Gardening course I teach for the New York Botanical Garden is on plant propagation, or as I like to call it, Making More Plants—borrowed from the title of an excellent book by Ken Druse. Over the year
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Orange An Armistice With
My very first copy of Horticulture was the January 1997 issue, when I was just 15 years old and living with my parents in suburban Maryland. As with most magazines, the cover was what grabbed my attention. Over an elegant cascade of reddish-purple ro
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GARDENS OF Quebec
They are two of the northernmost—and most spectacular—gardens in Canada: Quebec’s les Jardins de Les Quatre Ventsand Jardins de Métis. These are not “just-a-pleasant-stroll-through-the-flowers” kind of gardens. They challenge you. If you go, prepare
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Interior Divine
If you follow plant lovers online, you probably have an ever-growing and never-ending list of must-have plants. When I began my plant journey, this was me. Every time I would open my phone, I’d see a new plant that I never knew existed, and I would a
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Winter Reading
by David KampLibrary of American Landscape History, 2023 In Nature, Design, and Health, David Kamp looks back on his 40-year career as a landscape architect, educator and advocate. He is the principal of the design firm Dirtworks, which he named for
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A Little TLC
I’VE NEVER BEEN ABLE to grow hardy cyclamen. I have several educated guesses, which I define as guesses forged in failure, as to why. First, they came as frail, newly dug plants from generous friends. Having no reserves to counter whatever neglect fo
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Rhodiola Rosea
YOU MAY HAVE HEARDthat where poison ivy grows, jewelweed (Impatiens capensis) is a remedy that will grow nearby. But do you know about Rhodiola rosea? In mountainous parts of the world with severe winters, where humans struggle with the fatigue of ra

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