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2025
- Jun 13, 2025 Using Flower Shapes in Design
- May 31, 2025 What to Notice About a New Native Plant
- May 18, 2025 Minding the Garden Gap
- Apr 26, 2025 Carex texensis | Texas sedge
- Apr 20, 2025 Wisteria frutescens var. macrostachya
- Apr 7, 2025 Wintherthur and The Scott Arboretum in Early Spring
- Mar 22, 2025 2025 Philadelphia Flower Show
- Mar 11, 2025 Autumn Sowings and Spring Seedlings
- Feb 22, 2025 Balancing Coherence and Complexity
- Feb 8, 2025 The Great Cutback
- Jan 25, 2025 Legibility in Landscapes: Making Naturalistic Plantings More Readable
- Jan 20, 2025 Lessons from the High Line in Winter
- Jan 6, 2025 Cornus amomum 'Cayenne' | silky dogwood
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2024
- Dec 20, 2024 Phoradendron leucarpum | American mistletoe
- Dec 8, 2024 Creating a Bloom Calendar for Better Planting Design
- Nov 17, 2024 The Contrast of Fog
- Nov 9, 2024 Layer by Layer: Simplifying Naturalistic Planting Design
- Oct 25, 2024 Salvia azurea | prairie sage
- Oct 20, 2024 The Power of Repetition: How Repeating Plants Unifies PLANTINGS
- Sep 28, 2024 Helianthus argophyllus | Silver-leaf Sunflower
- Sep 21, 2024 Applying Grime's Triangle to my Garden
- Aug 31, 2024 Habranthus tubispathus var. texensis | copper lily
- Aug 20, 2024 Lessons from Polly Hill Arboretum
- Jul 27, 2024 Hymenocallis occidentalis | summer spider lily
- Jun 22, 2024 Hibiscus 'Lufkin Red'
- Jun 10, 2024 Blueberries in Texas
- May 18, 2024 Reflections from Spring
- Apr 21, 2024 Marshallia caespitosa | clumping Barbara's buttons
- Apr 16, 2024 Eclipse Perfection
- Apr 7, 2024 Trillium gracile | graceful trillium
- Apr 1, 2024 Last Frost
- Mar 17, 2024 2024 Philadelphia Flower Show
- Feb 24, 2024 Erythronium albidum | white trout lily
- Feb 18, 2024 UNC Charlotte Botanical Gardens
- Jan 20, 2024 Winter Preparations
- Jan 14, 2024 Native Wildflower Seedlings of January
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2023
- Dec 9, 2023 Longwood and Stoneleigh in November
- Nov 24, 2023 Chanticleer in November
- Nov 13, 2023 Symphyotrichum drummondii | Drummond's aster
- Nov 4, 2023 The Grand Opening of the Plantery Trial Garden
- Sep 23, 2023 Lycoris radiata | red spiderlily
- Sep 17, 2023 Granddad's Cowpeas
- Aug 27, 2023 Passiflora 'Incense'
- Aug 12, 2023 Enjoying Peaches
- Jul 29, 2023 An Afternoon at Hillside
- Jul 1, 2023 The Plants of Oudolf Field
- Jun 24, 2023 Plectocephalus americanus | American basketflower
- Jun 18, 2023 A Morning at Oudolf Field
- Jun 10, 2023 Phlox drummondii and a Texas (Mini) Superbloom
- May 27, 2023 May Wildflowers of Arkansas
- May 21, 2023 Late April at Ephemera Farm
- May 1, 2023 Streptanthus maculatus | clasping jewelflower
- Apr 15, 2023 Arnoglossum plantagineum | Prairie Indian Plantain
- Apr 1, 2023 Glandularia canadensis
- Mar 25, 2023 Freeze Warning
- Mar 18, 2023 Anemone caroliniana
- Feb 26, 2023 Placing Narcissus
- Feb 18, 2023 Winter Wonders at the Atlanta Botanical Garden
- Feb 11, 2023 Notes from the Atlanta Botanical Garden
- Jan 21, 2023 Welcome to Ephemera Farm
- Jan 14, 2023 The Colorful Twigs of Winter
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2022
- Dec 31, 2022 A Hard Stop
- Dec 17, 2022 The (Impulsive) Gift of Bulbs
- Dec 11, 2022 Solstice Seedlings
- Nov 26, 2022 Thankful for the Return of Snowdrops
- Nov 19, 2022 The Blessing of Seedheads
- Nov 12, 2022 The Gift of Persimmons
- Oct 29, 2022 Autumn Inspiration from the Dallas Arboretum
- Oct 23, 2022 An Autumn Entrance
- Oct 15, 2022 Perennial Plant Association Symposium 2022: Visiting Stoneleigh
- Sep 24, 2022 Copper Plant
- Sep 17, 2022 Asters of Autumn: Part 1
- Sep 3, 2022 The Return of Oxblood Lilies
- Aug 27, 2022 Gomphrena and the Dog Days of Summer
- Aug 20, 2022 Superbloom
- Jul 23, 2022 An Evening Stroll at Great Dixter
- Jul 1, 2022 Liatris pycnostachya, Sparklers for the Summer Garden
- Jun 24, 2022 Lessons from Leuvehoofd
- Jun 17, 2022 Stoneleigh
- Jun 3, 2022 Echinacea sanguinea, sanguine coneflower
- May 28, 2022 Rhododendron vaseyi at Southern Highlands Reserve
- May 21, 2022 Searching for Amsonia in Arkansas, Part 2
- May 14, 2022 Searching for Amsonia in Arkansas, Part 1
- Apr 22, 2022 Spring Plant Fair 2022
- Apr 1, 2022 The Peculiar Pedicularis
- Mar 25, 2022 On Pruning a Peach
- Mar 18, 2022 Bringing Daffodils In
- Feb 25, 2022 Returning to Wild Daffodils
- Feb 4, 2022 Magnolia 'Susan', Just One of the Girls
- Jan 28, 2022 Wire Weeding
- Jan 21, 2022 Tomato and Carrot Soup
- Jan 13, 2022 The Winter Foliage of Parlin's Pussytoes
- Jan 9, 2022 A Walk to See Possumhaw
- Jan 1, 2022 December at the JC Raulston Arboretum
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2021
- Dec 18, 2021 Solstice Trees
- Dec 12, 2021 Gentians for Advent
- Dec 4, 2021 Autumn in Spring Grove Cemetery
- Nov 28, 2021 November at the JC Raulston Arboretum
- Nov 22, 2021 Fall Color at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden
- Nov 14, 2021 Come One, Come All to a Plant Fair!
- Nov 7, 2021 Memories from Cades Cove
- Oct 23, 2021 October at the JC Raulston Arboretum
- Oct 16, 2021 A Favorite Aster
- Oct 10, 2021 Fall at the Dallas Arboretum
- Oct 3, 2021 September at the JC Raulston Arboretum
- Sep 26, 2021 The Warmth of Tickseed Sunflower
- Sep 18, 2021 A Peachy Keen Lycoris
- Sep 11, 2021 August at the JC Raulston Arboretum
- Aug 28, 2021 A Hint of Autumn from Hyptis alata
- Aug 14, 2021 Direct Sowing the Fall Garden
- Jul 31, 2021 The Scott Arboretum Part 2
- Jul 24, 2021 The Scott Arboretum Part 1
- Jul 17, 2021 A Mystery of Crepe Murder
- Jun 28, 2021 June at the JC Raulston Arboretum
- Jun 21, 2021 A Little More Thyme
- Jun 14, 2021 Philadelphia Flower Show 2021
- Jun 7, 2021 Claude Monet, Plantsman and Painter
- May 29, 2021 May at the JC Raulston Arboretum
- May 21, 2021 Scarlet Penstemon
- May 16, 2021 Dipping into Baptisia Again
- May 8, 2021 Sweet on Sweet Peas
- May 1, 2021 April at the JC Raulston Arboretum
- Apr 24, 2021 True Grit: Planting a Gravel Garden with Students
- Apr 17, 2021 Dipping into Baptisia
- Apr 9, 2021 Prairie Celestial
- Apr 2, 2021 Easter Weekend at Biltmore
- Mar 27, 2021 March at the JC Raulston Arboretum
- Mar 19, 2021 Don't Neglect This Muscari
- Mar 12, 2021 Gibbs Gardens
- Mar 5, 2021 Celebrating Emergence
- Feb 26, 2021 February at the JC Raulston Arboretum
- Feb 19, 2021 A Cold Week in Texas
- Feb 12, 2021 A Grand Narcissus
- Feb 5, 2021 Witch Hazels at The Scott Arboretum
- Jan 29, 2021 Winter Sowings
- Jan 22, 2021 A Snow Day at the JC Raulston Arboretum
- Jan 15, 2021 An East Texas Snow
- Jan 8, 2021 Reflections on Season Extension
- Jan 1, 2021 A New Gate for a New Year
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2020
- Dec 28, 2020 Napa Cabbage and Kohlrabi Salad
- Dec 21, 2020 Christmas 2020
- Dec 14, 2020 Christmas Cheer at Williamsburg
- Dec 7, 2020 Feather Bluestem against a Golden Sunset
- Nov 30, 2020 Fall Foliage in East Texas
- Nov 23, 2020 Thanksgiving Snowdrops
- Nov 16, 2020 Notes from the Patch, November 2020
- Nov 2, 2020 Plants Before Breakfast
- Oct 26, 2020 Autumn at Montrose
- Oct 19, 2020 Muhly by Morning, Muhly by Day
- Oct 12, 2020 Fall Color at Graveyard Fields
- Oct 4, 2020 Cajun Prairie
- Sep 21, 2020 Rayless Sunflower
- Sep 14, 2020 Late Summer in the Green Swamp
- Sep 6, 2020 A Lovely Aster
- Aug 30, 2020 Building a Bog
- Aug 23, 2020 Rain Lilies and Hawkmoths
- Aug 16, 2020 Presto, It's Pesto!
- Aug 3, 2020 Meeting my Hero, Eliot Coleman
- Jul 20, 2020 Guest Gardening at Chanticleer, Day Three
- Jul 13, 2020 Guest Gardening at Chanticleer, Day Two
- Jun 26, 2020 In Praise of Ipomopsis
- Jun 19, 2020 Guest Gardening at Chanticleer, Day One
- Jun 12, 2020 #rhodiesandwildponies at Grayson Highlands State Park
- Jun 5, 2020 Detour to Echinacea pallida
- May 30, 2020 Inspiration from Potager du Roi
- May 25, 2020 Carex cherokeensis, Cherokee sedge
- May 16, 2020 I spy with my little eye, Spigelia
- May 1, 2020 Keep Calm and Garden On
- Apr 29, 2020 Even Assassin Bugs Need Something Sweet
- Apr 27, 2020 Clearcut Meadow Garlic
- Apr 22, 2020 Celebrating Earth Day with Stewartia malacodendron
- Apr 17, 2020 A Clematis from Texas
- Apr 15, 2020 The Pastoral Spirit of Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
- Apr 12, 2020 Celebrating Easter in Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest
- Apr 8, 2020 Hey, Sarracenia, I like your style
- Apr 7, 2020 Recipe: German Red Cabbage
- Apr 6, 2020 Say Hi to Hymenopappus artemisiifolius
- Apr 2, 2020 Slipping Upon Cypripedium kentuckiense
- Mar 31, 2020 The Foggy Flowers of White Fringe Tree
- Mar 30, 2020 Primrose Peerless is Blooming
- Mar 23, 2020 Dividing Leucojum before a Rain
- Mar 20, 2020 Sandyland Bluebonnets Blooming
- Mar 19, 2020 Texas toadflax
- Mar 18, 2020 Rooting Out Bloodroot
- Mar 17, 2020 Potting Up Sarracenia
- Mar 17, 2020 Finding Featherbells
- Mar 7, 2020 My Planting for a Monarch
- Feb 17, 2020 A Swell Swale
- Jan 20, 2020 Winter Botanizing in East Texas
- Jan 4, 2020 No, you shouldn’t plant trees in square holes, AND it is 26% more work for you.
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2019
- Nov 16, 2019 Frost Flowers
- Nov 9, 2019 Are Shrubs Dead?
- Nov 1, 2019 Barrens, Bogs, and Stokesia in Texas
- Oct 4, 2019 Finding Fall in Western Michigan
- Sep 7, 2019 The Allure of the Lurie Garden
- Aug 31, 2019 Garden Notes: Late August, 2019
- Aug 12, 2019 PPA 2019: North to Northwind Perennial Farm
- Jul 29, 2019 PPA 2019: Intrinsic Perennial Gardens
- Jul 26, 2019 Reminiscing on Joshua Tree
- Jul 25, 2019 I’ve Been Hanging Pots Around
- Jul 24, 2019 Crazy for Crevices at Juniper Level Botanic Garden
- Jul 23, 2019 Lately 'Antebellum'
- Jul 22, 2019 Monocot Garden at the JC Raulston Arboretum
- Jun 19, 2019 The Clouds of Pycnanthemum
- Jun 14, 2019 Delphinium carolinianum, Rock Candy for the Garden
- Jun 10, 2019 Bogs and Baygalls
- May 20, 2019 Stewartia malacodendron and More at Little Cow Creek
- May 2, 2019 A Cool-colored Planting
- Apr 1, 2019 A Cruel April Fools' Joke
- Mar 29, 2019 The Landscape Olympics
- Mar 16, 2019 Beauty in the Spring
- Feb 23, 2019 Pin the Plant on the Triangle
- Feb 14, 2019 Chillin' for a Peach Fillin'
- Feb 8, 2019 Sowing Perennial Seeds
- Jan 25, 2019 An Auger, The Best Purchase of 2018
- Jan 18, 2019 Flaming Broomsedge Seed
- Jan 15, 2019 Constructing a Cold Frame
- Jan 11, 2019 Goatweed Leafwing
- Jan 10, 2019 Mowing the Food Prairies
- Jan 8, 2019 Natural Grafts
- Jan 7, 2019 This Week in the Garden: Broccoli Ready for Harvest
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2018
- Nov 13, 2018 Students Showcase an Interest in Horticulture
- Nov 7, 2018 Magnolia Seed, Spooky Stuff
- Nov 5, 2018 The Old Factories
- Oct 16, 2018 I'm Digging Peanuts
- Sep 29, 2018 A Sweet Harvest
- Sep 21, 2018 Bolting to Boltonia
- Sep 2, 2018 Eragrostis, a Grass I Love
- Aug 24, 2018 A Prairie from Scratch
- Jun 29, 2018 Anyone can grow plants
- Jun 23, 2018 The Azaleas on Gregory Bald
- Jun 1, 2018 Echinacea Named Tennessee
- Apr 22, 2018 Where the Wood Thrush Sings
- Apr 21, 2018 Discovering Blue Wood Sedge
- Mar 19, 2018 Chanticleer in Winter
- Feb 26, 2018 Field Notes from Philadelphia: Seed Your Future & Longwood
- Feb 6, 2018 Stalwart Asparagus
- Jan 27, 2018 Field Notes from Connecticut, January 2018
- Jan 20, 2018 Happy Anti-privet Day!
- Jan 12, 2018 The Avoidance Zone
- Jan 5, 2018 2018 Garden Plans
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2017
- Dec 15, 2017 The Waiting Period
- Dec 13, 2017 Grasses at the NC Museum of Art
- Nov 29, 2017 Creating a Kitchen Garden
- Nov 13, 2017 Mulch Happens
- Oct 18, 2017 Titanotrichum Or Treat
- Oct 11, 2017 A Frigid Autumnal Fritillary
- Oct 6, 2017 Tendrils from Speaking of Gardening 2017
- Oct 2, 2017 Finding a Home
- Sep 26, 2017 Dyeing to Learn
- Sep 19, 2017 Delightful Plants from Denver
- Sep 15, 2017 Homeowners... and Garden Owners
- Jun 25, 2017 I Like Showy Evening Primrose
- Jun 10, 2017 Planting the Food Prairies
- May 26, 2017 Designing the Food Prairies
- Apr 24, 2017 The Roadside Flowers
- Mar 27, 2017 A Pioneer in the Smokies
- Feb 27, 2017 Plants of a Feather
- Feb 18, 2017 Reckoning with Foliage
- Feb 7, 2017 Food Prairies
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2016
- Aug 18, 2016 Cut flowers are not sustainable?
- Feb 13, 2016 Ruts in Grass
- Jan 18, 2016 Sprout Germinates