April 2013
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Kitchen Gardening
Fantastic-Tasting Pink Heirloom Tomatoes
One of my favorite things about heirloom and open-pollinated vegetables is discovering the amazing array of color variation. And heirloom tomatoes have beautiful hues in spades.
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Design
Spring at Winterthur, Day 2
Indulge me as I share 12 more photos from Winterthur. These take us out of the woodland into other, just as spectacular parts of this amazing garden. Enjoy! I promise…
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How-To
5 Tips for Transplanting Vegetable Seedlings
Successfully transplant your seedlings into the garden bed with five simple steps.
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Design
Spring at Winterthur, Day 1
I've been to Winterthur (in Wilmington, Delaware) before. It was really pretty (OK I might be just a bit jaded by all of my garden travels...). But little did I…
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Kitchen Gardening
Dwarf Citrus Trees for the Small Garden
If you haven't done any citrus gardening yet (but would like to), consider foregoing the giant standards and planting their dwarf cousins instead.
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Article
Skip the Theme Parks — Head for Orlando’s Leu Gardens!
Sometimes getting lost leads to fantastic treasures, like stumbling upon the Harry P. Leu Gardens in Orlando, Florida
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How-To
Growing Lacinato “Dinosaur” Kale
My first attempt at growing this beautiful and unusual kale and been a sweet success.
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Design
Spring at the Laurelwood Arboretum in New Jersey
Wow, I think anything I post today will just pale in comparison to Beth's garden, which we've visited for the past four days! Thanks, Beth, for sharing. I think it's…
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Design
Beth’s garden in Iowa, Day 4–Containers & Ornaments
Welcome to the 4th and final day in Beth Zakrasek's garden in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Today's post is a bit of a mashup of lots of extra photos Beth sent.…
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Article
Victoria: Plant or Phenomenon?
Longwood's plant aficionado fields some questions about the subject of his new opus: the Victoria lily