Solidago flexicaulis (Zigzag Solidago) blooms on the side of the road in Vermont.  Image by Thomas Rainer A shade tolerant Solidago?  A f...

It’s a common sight in the American landscape: trees skirted with a ring of mulch around their base that float in a sea of lawn.   Landscap...

Late September is an ideal time to think about next year’s garden.   Collecting and saving seeds might be the world’s most ancient garden ac...

Is it possible to spoil a plant?  According to science, the answer may be 'yes.' After a wet spring, this past June was the hotte...

Ten Bold Native Plants to Update Granny's Cottage Garden I recently read a great article in the British Gardens Illustrated magazine t...

Article from Science reporter, BBC News "In a small, noisy labratory, tucked away in London's Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, a tiny...

If I could banish one word from the English language, it would be "groundcover."  The era of the groundcover must end.  While...

If I could plant only one woody plant in my garden, and I wanted one for year-round beauty, wildlife habitat, and ethnobotanical curiosity, ...

It was the garden heard round the world. Beth Chatto’s garden in Essex, England, is perhaps the single most influential garden of the last c...

“The chief vice in gardens is to be merely pretty,” wrote American landscape architect Fletcher Steele in the 1930’s. “I believe there is no...

[Image from Mayang.com] This article has been linked from The University of Oxford.  For original link, click here . "The received wi...