Sometimes it takes a village to find your next satisfying read. That's why we were delighted when Shepherd.com asked us to write a roundup of our favorite plant-related books according to a theme of our choice. In case you missed it, the book lists on Shepherd...
It's always been our mission to help you grow more plants in your space, no matter how big or small it may be. So when Garden Gate magazine asked us to participate in this year's Grow Better Garden Summit, we jumped at the chance to...
Updated March 6th, 2021: Order your vertical gardening kits today at SkyPots.com. It's been six years now since we published the original DIY project for Whole Foods's Dark Rye magazine. The project didn't even have a name at the time. Better Homes & Gardens then picked...
Ah, autumn in New York—there's a reason Billie sang about it. Especially those first few crisp days! It's a feeling you wish you could bottle up and uncork all year long as needed, like, say, when the February snow won't shovel itself, or when you're...
That sound you hear? That's our very loud sigh of relief as we wrap up edits on our very. First. Book. Published by Clarkson Potter (also home to Ina Garten, Martha Stewart, and David Chang, and an imprint of Penguin Random House), How to Window...
When my brother Neal Benoit and his family moved into their first single-family home in 2009 just south of the Capitol Beltway in Alexandria, Virginia, he also stumbled into an interest in gardening. Five years later, his garden is the talk of the block. The diversely...
When I come home from work feeling flu-ish, only a homemade yerba mate latte and YouTube in bed will do. My new visual comfort food? British gardening shows. The tree spirits of the internet have been serving up some excellent medicine lately. This week Ryan and...
Whenever one of our favorite “plant guys” sends us an email saying a crop is at its best and most abundant and that we should come see it, we drop what we’re doing and head for the action. That’s exactly what we did when Kalim...
You might remember a certain trip we took to the beach last spring, when we brought home a wagon brimming with several varieties of kelp. That afternoon back in June, we combined approximately 10 pounds of rinsed seaweed with water inside a 10-gallon Rubbermaid tote and...
Remember our darling, hangover-curing loquat tree? About a month after we picked its last fruit of the season, our tree was attacked by a horde of green apple aphids. It happened almost overnight: One moment the loquat’s foliage was broad and lustrous, and the next its...