Mandevilla sanderi ‘Red Riding Hood’ (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
Do you garden in the shade? This post from Root Simple has a good list of plants that will tolerate (and even thrive in) a bit of shade. Have you had any shady gardening triumphs? What plants have worked for you?
When visiting the city’s parks (which includes the Garden), please don’t pick the daisies, or blueberries, or American ginger, or mountain mint, etc., etc., etc.
I have recently discovered and become a big fan of avant cellist Zöe Keating. With just her cello, a foot-controlled Macbook Pro that runs Ableton Live, SooperLooper and…
Learn more about everyone’s favorite summer-gardening read, Founding Gardeners, in this great NPR interview with author Andrea Wulf and Director of Gardens and Grounds at Monticello, Peter Hatch.
In the heat of the summer (and this one has especially been hot!), there are some beautiful blossoms to behold. From daylilies, hibiscus, waterlilies and of course roses, summer gardens…
Naw Aung (see Naw Aung and His Sagawa and Tool Repair) is a villager from Shinlonga (see Shinlonga) who has helped out during all phases of the community forestry work (see …
NY1’s Stephanie Simon visited Spanish Paradise: Gardens of the Alhambra and talked to the Garden’s Interpretive Specialist Joanna Groarke.
Hibiscus ‘Kopper King’ (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
Some gardeners, as well as some interns through a Columbia University summer internship programs, braved the heat to do a cleanup at Five Star Garden in Harlem…and the fresh picked plums were…
Red Jacket Orchard has black currants at our Greenmarket today. Learn all about this fascinating, incredibly healthy, and one-time rare (at least in New York State) treat on Amy Eddings’ fascinating WNYC show “Last Chance Foods.”
Narrow tunnel running through one of the main pyramids at Becan in the state of Campeche, Mexico. As I squeezed into this space, I reflected on who might have been doing the same thing in…
Peter Kukielski, curator of the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden, knows that a rose is not a rose, is a rose, is a rose. Each rose has its own scent, as well as its own look. And so when the New York Times’ T Magazine needed an expert to sniff through an assortment of the season’s newest rose-tinted perfumes, they turned to a nose that knows.
