To mark a year of monthly Q&A podcasts together, Ken Druse and I themed our latest conversation to a topic that many listeners ask about, in one way or another, a lot of the time: gardening in the shade, a particular expertise of Ken’s, who has written two books on the subject.
This is the 12th of our monthly Urgent Garden Question Q&A shows, and we thank you for your support—and for your questions most of all. You can keep them coming any time in comments or by email, using the contact form, or at Facebook.
We discussed the dreaded Norway maple, ground covers for shade (including sedges) and more. 
I suspect every gardener has for years now, over and again, heard the warnings about the most widely used pesticides in the US, neonicotinoids...
Some of the many unusual fruits that Allyson Levy and Scott Serrano grow in their arboretum in the Hudson Valley of New York, like...
I put out my first bird feeder of the season on Thanksgiving and got the party started. But there's more to feeding the birds...