We gardeners all know the experience of loss: of plants that don’t make it, for one reason or another—from a tomato felled by disease in a too-humid summer to a venerable old tree taken out by a nasty winter storm.
There are losses every year, no matter how expert a gardener you are...but some of them really stand out in memory, indelible. Plants we have loved and lost, but never forgotten: That’s our topic today with my friend Ken Druse. You all know Ken, who gardens in New Jersey, and is the author of an impressive 20 garden books.
As a garden writer, I get a lot of questions every year basically asking this: What’s wrong with my (fill in the blank) plant?...
With the surge in interest in lawn alternatives and other native choices for groundcover, the genus Carex is always mentioned high up on the...
Today’s show is all about surprises—and the first one is my guest. He’s back: My old friend Ken Druse is here after too many...