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.![]()

In a recent industry newsletter, I saw a link to a story about the herbicide called horticultural vinegar, and clicked on it. And then,...
One of the tallest perennials in my garden is New York ironweed, Vernonia noveboracensis, but basically my knowledge of the genus starts and ends...
Your recent questions ranged from favorite blue hydrangeas to junipers with browning needles, and even birds tapping incessantly on window glass and tackling the...