Anybody got an Urgent Garden Question? Apparently so, and because you keep asking them in comments on the website, in emails, and even on Facebook, and now at @awaytogarden, on Instagram, too. Friend and fellow garden writer Ken Druse keeps coming back to help me answer them. This month’s topics range from transplanting hydrangeas, to tackling horsetail or Equisetum, to growing the stinking hellebore (Helleborus foetidus) and much more.![]()

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