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‘Conscious Gardening’: Why Your Garden Needs a Mission Statement

Setting a clear intention can improve your design decisions and plant choices — especially if you’re “a nursery grabber” who…

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How Do You Restore a Chestnut Forest or an Apple Orchard? Very Slowly.

This botanic garden is determined to bring back the American chestnut tree and heirloom apples that taste like those grown…

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An Ode to Gardens That’s Also a Bouquet of Ideas

In her latest book, Olivia Laing makes an impassioned case for the garden — as repository of natural beauty, as…

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How One Couple Turned Their Backyard Into an Arboretum

Their passion for fruit you’ve never heard of started small. Now they have a botanical garden that’s open to the…

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Your Chance to Snoop: It’s ‘Open Days’ Season in the Garden

This year, more than 360 private gardens across the country are opening to visitors. Don’t miss your chance to learn…

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In Los Angeles, a Hilltop Garden Party With a Tower of Crudités

Sara Kramer and Sarah Hymanson — the chef-owners of the restaurant Kismet — hosted a Mediterranean and Middle Eastern feast…

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Gardens of Good and Evil

I’ve always thought of gardens as benign, even virtuous places. It wasn’t until the lockdowns of 2020 that the garden…

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A Quite Contrary Alphabet Book Asks, How Did Our Gardens Grow?

AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GARDENING FOR COLORED CHILDREN: An Alphabetary of the Colonized World, by Jamaica Kincaid. Illustrated by Kara Walker.…

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Is Your Garden Missing Something? You May Need a Large Pot (or Several).

An imposing work of pottery can be as important to the design of a landscape as any well-placed plant. And…

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Gardens of Stone, Moss, Sand: 4 Moments of Zen in Kyoto

Once, when the Buddha was asked to preach about a flower he was presented, he instead “gazed at it in…

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