Growing With Plants

June is the gardener’s month. A task-month where one has strict deadlines to meet based on the length of the summer gardening season. Before…

Broad Beans (four varieties) are in bloom and will soon form pods. This is one crop enjoys the cooler than normal temperatures this spring….

Helen O-Donnell with her daughter (and another one on the way!) resting a bit after a busy day – her hand-raised rare and unusual…

New England’s most desirable ticket in the spring is Trade Secrets, a two day event and fundraiser that attracts hundreds of people looking to…

Helen Yoest poses in her charming greenhouse. We spent a morning together when I visited Raleigh NC a few weeks ago. Three weeks ago…

We hosted two nights of cocktail parties and dinners for the American Primrose Society as they held their national primrose show last weekend at…

I had a chance to visit Richmond Virginia’s award winning Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden last week while traveling to speak at the J.C. Raulston…