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WHEN THE Queen Abdicates
Without a queen to rule, your hive can't survive.
A DUCK FOR ALL Seasons
Care for ducks throughout the year with this seasonal guide.
Meet Li Schmidt
At Cultural Roots Nursery, in Winters, California, Li Schmidt grows more than 100 Asian-heritage vegetables, herbs, fruit and trees on 1⁄4 acre.
Turkeys for the Home Table
Raise your own birds for a tastier and healthier holiday meal.
Climate-Resilient Crops
Farmers operating large commercial outfits and smaller, hobby growers alike are facing new challenges season after season.
raise STRONGER CHICKENS
Look around your kitchen, and you'll likely find some natural poultry supplements.
Winter's Last Stand
Early warm weather followed by a late frost can easily ruin an orchard harvest.
Pumpkins & Gourds
Tyler Swafford’s enthusiasm for raising pumpkins and gourds is contagious. The lifelong farmer, himself the descendent of a lifelong farmer, makes his home on Dayton Mountain overlooking Tennessee’s Sequatchie Valley.
Creating STOCK
Breed and raising your own replacement layers for a small-scale egg operation.
LET'S SPLIT IT
THE INS AND OUTS OF PROPAGATION BY DIVISION
Interior Divine
GOT THE WINTER BLUES? HERE'S HOW TO GET HAPPY WITH SOME NEW HOUSEPLANTS
WINTER READING
Recent releases that excite the gardener’s mind
NEW PLANTS - Fragrant selections
EACH YEAR, plant brands release exciting new cultivars to market, the results of years of breeding, selecting, trialing and propagating. New plants are bred to enhance traits that make them stand out against comparable cultivars-and in your garden.
GET IT GROWING
Five ways to create or expand a vegetable garden
an armistice with Orange
ONE DESIGNER'S TRUCE WITH AN AGE-OLD NEMESIS
GARDENS OF Quebec
TWO STORIED JARDINS WARRANT A JOURNEY NORTH FROM THE CAPITAL CITY
LESSONS FROM THE PAST
More than a century ago, Nature Study advocates sought to connect schoolchildren with the science of landscapes and gardens
BRIE ARTHUR
Evolution of a plant lady
RHODIOLA ROSEA
This widespread succulent boasts a long history of helpfulness
A Little TLC
I'VE NEVER BEEN ABLE to grow hardy cyclamen. I have several educated guesses, which I define as guesses forged in failure, as to why.
HORTPOURRI
Another batch of Greg’s hardwon tips, and a further update on that frozen Fuyu persimmon tree
Bee Balm
Butterflies and pollinating insects can't resist this bold summer perennial.
Reader Tips
GREAT IDEAS FROM SMART GARDENERS
Dreaming of Summer
Unless you are lucky enough to live where it’s warm year round, when winter starts to drag on, it may feel as if the garden is awash in dreary, monochromatic browns and grays. Time to close your eyes and dream of summer—a colorful season when foliage is vibrant, fl owers are blooming and pollinators are active. If you need a bit of summer inspiration, here are three colorful low-maintenance combos that will also attract wildlife. Who wouldn’t dream of that?
6 Pro Garden Design Secrets
Starting a garden can feel overwhelming. And sometimes it’s hard to know if you’ll like something until you’ve seen it. By then, you’ve spent enough hours, hard work and money that it’s tough to make a change.
2024's Best New Plants!
Instead of ringing in the new year with champagne and balloons, why not treat yourself to a few new plants that you can enjoy through the growing season? There are a lot of interesting introductions to get excited about this year.
Native Bees Find Winter Shelter in Surprising Places
As the buzz of busy bees gave way to the rustle of fallen leaves in my autumn garden, the last of the bumblebee stragglers hit up fading mountain mint blooms. Day by day, fewer sparkly green sweat bees and dwarf carpenter bees nectared on the asters, eventually vanishing along with the fluffy field thistle seeds.
5 Ways to Stake Tomatoes
While it might feel early to be thinking about tomatoes, it’s never too early to start planning your next garden, especially if your tomato plants tend to look wild and overgrown by the time you remember to offer them a cage for support.
Birds & The Bees (and Bunnies)
Although I wouldn’t call my raised garden beds romantic, the rabbits in my neighborhood sure like to use them in spring for their bunny rendezvous and subsequent nests.
Destination Gardens
Don’t miss out on these four botanical treasures!