It's Urgent Garden Question time again, which means Ken Druse visited my radio show and podcast to help provide the answers about topics ranging from good and bad materials for making garden paths, to issues with powdery mildew on various plants, and roses with black spot-and even a question about transplanting ginkgo seedlings (or not).
When we spoke, longtime friend and fellow garden writer Ken was just back from a garden-filled lecture trip across the nation, with stops at Minnesota Landscape Arboretum and in Northern California. He shared highlights from those stops, too, including various bold foliage plants he enjoyed seeing, while also answering listener questions.
I’m on my third generation of seed-starting lights, a journey that began back in the day when shop lights with so-called cool-white and warm-white...
Some of the most beautiful and intricate creatures in the garden are not plants at all. A diversity of lichens are showing off right...
A “New York Times” column I did recently happily put me back in touch with organic farmer Kate Spring, who in our past conversations...