March/April 2019

Horticulture

Horticulture Magazine

Horticulture2 min readPopular Culture & Media Studies
Editor’s Note
SOME TIME AGO I read an article that suggested that chronic loneliness is becoming more common despite technology providing easy ways to connect and communicate with one another. In it a young woman explained that she has plenty of friends and family
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A Very Useful Weed
I KNEW A SECRET POND, hidden by tall rushes and overgrown with shrubs, with an abundance of bass in it. I took my fishing gear and drove the 40 miles from my home, pushed my way through the overgrown path to the water’s edge and cast my lure, dreamin
Horticulture3 min readEarth Sciences
Key Contents
AS THOUGHTS OF SPRING enter our minds, many people are starting to design and develop their perfect spring and summer gardens. For many vegetable growers, raised beds are a great choice because the soil they contain warms up more quickly than ground
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Fantastic False Indigo
AS A CHILD OF PARENTS who loved traditional children’s books, I grew up surrounded by illustrations of magical gardens. You know, those Beatrix Potter drawings of towering foxgloves, and Barbara Cooney’s abundant drifts of lupines taller than a child
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Better Basils
BASIL IS THE MOST popular culinary herb grown in gardens, but with increased reports of diseases like downy mildew and fusarium wilt, it’s not always easy to grow. Growing disease-resistant cultivars, spacing plants to allow for air circulation and w
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The Plentiful Persimmon
I AM NOT SURE HOW I became such a big fan of persimmons. They kind of crept up on me. In my family, persimmons used to be just a post–Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner treat mixed in the fruit basket along with pears, pomegranates, big navel oranges
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Making The Cut
There’s a special pleasure in cutting flowers fresh from your own garden. That pleasure is tenfold when the flowers you cut grow in such abundance all season that taking some for the vase still leaves plenty in garden beds. For gardeners, this makes
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Welcome HOME
First signs of spring are legendary, particularly in places blanketed in snow for much of winter. Where I grew up, near Washington, DC, we eagerly awaited the American robins’ arrival. They usually appeared in March, whistling a hearty tune: “Cheer u
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BEGINNING WITH Bees
Although keeping bees is described as the extreme sport of gardening, beehives are fast becoming a common feature in urban gardens. From the contented hum of a healthy hive, to the entertaining exploits of foraging bees, to the scent of pure honeycom
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Hometown HORTICULTURE
Catskill, a village of just over 4,000 people in rural New York’s Greene County, was founded in 1806. Thanks to the village’s location at the confluence of the Catskill Creek and the Hudson River, local industries in the 1800s and early 1900s include
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PLANTED On Instagram
Despite the constant clickbait headlines about humans obsessed with their phones, gardening is alive and well—and you can find the proof on Instagram. Here are three gardeners who use the social-media site to celebrate plants and gardens. “There wer
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PLANTING FOR Fire
The wildfire problem is getting worse. Last year, California suffered its deadliest and its largest wildfires ever. And it’s not just California. Disastrous wildfires have occurred in Oklahoma, Colorado, southern Florida and eastern Tennessee in rece
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Plants We Love
This native groundcover can be found in the woodlands of much of eastern North America, making it a good choice for shade gardens there. Its broad, rounded, half-inch leaves form a dense, bright green cover all year. Small, four-petaled, fragrant whi
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The Savage Removal of a Malicious Shrub
I’M A SECOND-CAREER, self-taught horticulturist, which means I had the luxury of learning the fun stuff I liked (plants, soil, design) while deftly sidestepping the rest (turf, plant ID). It also means that when I’m among classically trained horticul

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