While breeding irises is all consuming, Cole has a day job as a jeweler. He designs jewelry at his store, D. Cole Jewelers, ...

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Costantino Chiarella, 84, has a property in the Town of Poughkeepsie unlike many others. His garden, in honor of his late ...

We need the tonic of wildness,” wrote Henry David Thoreau in Walden. “We can never have enough of nature.” This philosophy inspired the creation of Ear ...

Even if you have a small outdoor space, it doesn't mean that your plants need to make a small impact. Pick these tall options to make use of vertical space.

Things in Nature Merely Grow” is about what Yiyun Li calls life inside an “abyss,” the abyss marked by the deaths of her ...

Start up another zucchini or yellow summer squash plant for mid-July planting. You might not find ready-made starts at the nursery, but you sure can start some seeds now.

While July gardening chores revolve around watering, weeding, deadheading and helping plants through the heat, those chores might include transplanting bearded iris and watching for powdery mildew on ...

As far as summer perennials go, catmint is at the top of horticulturist Christine Froehlich’s list for pruning. "The number ...

The “sun” garden glitters by day and glows by night. Interspersed among phlox, catmint, purple Japanese irises, and red bee ...

Each full moon has its own name. Learn about the naming tradition, full moon dates, the first supermoon of 2025 and more.

Today’s column introduces guidelines for year-round gardening for herbaceous perennial plants that are native to a ...