Unusual Fruit: About 10 years ago, Dan Furman joined the nursery and mail-order operation his parents Kasha and David had started in 1989 in Connecticut to specialize in Chinese tree peonies, which are still a mainstay of the family business. Well, Dan brought with him a growing interest in edible ornamentals, he says, "to make landscapes more bountiful, not just beautiful." And with lots of personal research and experimentation, he has added a great assortment of them to the Cricket Hill lineup.
I can’t imagine life without my admittedly oddball collection of houseplants, many of whom have been with me for several decades already. So I...
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If I say garden maintenance, you probably think of work—of getting out the pruners and hedge trimmers and such, and subduing any overenthusiastic plants,...