There are so many good reasons to garden, and every reason and garden activity is interrelated. The more time you spend outdoors, the more insect, bird and human neighbors you meet. The more you know your neighbors, both wild and human, the more...
Meadow blazing star hosts butterflies and pollinating insects. Meet this prairie plant on page 39.
Long before central North America was settled and developed, large swaths of verdant prairies teeming with diverse ora and fauna thrived there. Expansive grasslands existed from Canada south to Texas, and from Indiana west to Colorado....
Is there anything worse than seeing a crop of cabbage devoured by cabbage loopers? Or your roses and fruit trees skeletonized by Japanese beetles? Even when you do all the right things to grow strong, healthy plants, sometimes insect pests...
You needn’t be a botanist nor even a studied gardener to know a hydrangea when you see it. The large, rounded ower heads and straight stems of bigleaf hydrangea cultivars are instantly recognizable, and the confusion over when to prune them...
Have you ever frozen in the middle of a routine task and wondered, “Wait, should I be doing this differently?” Unlike commercial organic growers who have to follow speci c regulations, home gardeners are free to grow according to their own...