Christine McLaughlin

  • Design

    Plants for the Butterfly Garden

    The clever gardener will encourage butterflies to visit their gardens not only because they are beautiful, but because they are important plant pollinators for flowers and food as well. In…

  • Kitchen Gardening

    How to Grow Pole Beans

    For reliability and yield, you can't beat pole beans. You'll need some kind of support, of course, so that's a little extra work, but the trade-off is more exposure to…

  • Kitchen Gardening

    How to Grow Strawberries

    We all know that the fresh goodness of strawberries is well worth a little trouble. Not only is the sugar-berry flavor of strawberries a delicious reward, but they’re also a…

  • Design

    5 Reasons to Plant Herbs as Groundcovers