pollinator garden
-
Design
Celebrating End-of-Summer Beauty with Maxine
Today we’re in Rotterdam, New York, visiting with Maxine Brisport. Each year I gaze in wonderment of the beauty that graces my upstate New York garden—from the brilliant yellow of…
-
Collection
Pollinator Plants for Your Region
As digital content editor Christine Alexander explains, pollinators play a vital role in our ecosystem and we should all be doing our part to support their populations: "Pollinators play an…
-
Design
Take a Video Tour of a Rooftop Pollinator Garden
Take a tour through a magical pollinator garden located atop a multistory apartment building in the middle of Chicago. Featured in Fine Gardening #213, this garden is an oasis within…
-
Design
Visitors in Maxine’s Garden
We’re in Rotterdam, New York, visiting with Maxine Brisport today. My daily walk through the garden has become a ritual. I absolutely enjoy gazing at the colors and softly inhaling…
-
Design
7 Tough Pollinator Plants That Thrive in Punishing Conditions
These seven tough pollinator plants can take wind, heat, full sun, and extremely well-drained soil without much supplemental water. In An Urban Rooftop Garden for Pollinators, Hayden Regina writes: Standouts…
-
Design
An Urban Rooftop Garden for Pollinators
Each morning my partner, Steve, and I head up to our rooftop to greet the bees as they begin their days’ work. After all, time is honey. While I sometimes…
-
Design
Reaching New Gardening Heights | Letter from the Editor
“Can bees even fly that high?” This was a comment made by one of our editors during a planning session for this issue of Fine Gardening. She was referring to…
-
Design
Nicki’s New Garden Project
Today we’re in Lake Bluff, Illinois, visiting Nicki Snoblin’s garden. This year I decided to dig up about a third of my front yard to make a place for sun-loving,…
-
Design
7 Simple Ways to Help Pollinators
We gardeners are becoming more aware of our changing world, not just the climate but also the habitat reduction for pollinators. Landscape designers are becoming more aware and responding by…
-
Design
Tour a Beautiful, Eco-Friendly Front-Yard Garden
Lou and Dell Salza’s front yard in Shaker Heights, Ohio, is living proof that a garden can be both beautiful and ecologically functional. Making the most of a modestly sized…