What We’re Reading: Farms as an Allergy Cure, and the Hot New Houseplant (Oh, and a Pop Star’s Seeds Get Quarantined)
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13 November, 2013
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The New ‘Seeing Flowers’ Brings You Up Close and Personal With Your Favorite Blooms
With the fading of our last passionflower last month, things are muted, florally speaking, right now inside our garden. The exceptions would be our small hibiscus shrub and our jade plant, whose delicate white flowers are already beginning to emerge. We’re predicting that it will...
06 November, 2013
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‘City Parks’ Editor Catie Marron on the High Line in Fall, Getting Casual in Paris and Finding Freedom in Urban Woodlands
We live in our parks, and our parks live in us. Parks are where we make loose appointments with friends, where we smooth out our nerves before job interviews, where we introduce our babies to the outside world, and the only place we’ll ever take...
23 October, 2013
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Cold Plums, Stolen Peonies and Stabbing Grass: The Modernist Garden Poetry of William Carlos Williams
“Your thighs are appletrees / whose blossoms touch the sky,” William Carlos Williams writes in his 1920 poem “Portrait of a Lady.” The immortal modernist was born on this day in 1883 in Rutherford, New Jersey. (“The sand clings to my lips -- / Which...
17 September, 2013
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Grunge-Inspired Grasslands and a Delphinium Wedding: The Plant Lover’s Guide to Vogue’s September Issue
It’s that time of year again! You know, that end-of-summer stretch marked by groaning mailbags, raised eyebrows at the newsstand, and 900+ plus pages of fashion euphoria? That’s right, Vogue magazine’s September issue is out. The famously fat edition is a design-world event not just because of...
26 August, 2013
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Pocket Paradise: Author Janit Calvo on “Gardening in Miniature,” Alien Sunflowers and Other Small Wonders
We’ll let you guess which half of The Horticult we’re talking about here: Growing up, one of us was hopelessly obsessed with miniatures. Ages 8 through 11 13, C used to make pilgrimages to suburban mall kiosks and craft stores to buy toothpick chandeliers, lawnmowers operated...
31 July, 2013
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Amanda ‘Kiss My Aster’ Thomsen on Her Gardening Book, Punk-Rock Plants, and the Biggest Mistake Made by Newbies
"Setting up your perennial garden may seem intimidating, but don't be afraid...
08 July, 2013
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Giveaway! Win a Bumper Crop of Gardening Books from Timber Press
On the one hand, there are flings — the here-today-faded-tomorrow flashes of love, drama and seduction. And on the other hand, there are the smooth and steady partnerships that only get better and more brilliant over time. We were reminded of these two kinds of...
26 April, 2013
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Purring Plants, the ‘Vertical Forest’ Backlash, and the Warning System of Bees
From the hidden vibrations of flowers to empowering heirloom seeds in India (to, hello, that Higgs boson), it’s been a big week for small things. ✚ You know the bit of garden folklore about how tomatoes scream when they’re sliced? Although the ESP aspect has been soundly MythBusted, this...
15 March, 2013
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The Life and Death of Plants — Explained by Math, NPR
In a recent post for his Radiolab/NPR blog Krulwich Wonders, Robert Krulwich writes: "Life is short for small creatures, longer in big ones. So algae die sooner than oak trees; elephants live longer than mayflies, but you know that. Here's the surprise: There is a mathematical formula...
01 February, 2013
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