If you have ever tried creating, and then caring for, a habitat-style garden with native plants … well, let’s just say it’s not exactly the same thing as combining a group of hostas with some astilbes an a couple of bleeding hearts. In the process of writing a recent NY Times garden column about Wild Ones, the nationwide nonprofit membership organization that promotes native plants, I was introduced to today’s guest, the artist and landscape architect Preston Montague of Durham, N.C., who patiently schooled me in some of whys and how-to’s of naturalistic garden design and care that I wanted... Read More ›
