Is your goal to create an aesthetically-pleasing garden with specific ornamental characteristics or to conserve or restore a natural area and restore genetic diversity in the landscape? Read more about seed cultivars to determine which plants best fulfill your intended purpose.

In the uncommonly nice weather we have been experiencing, now is a good time to get out into the landscape and remove all of the small winter annual weeds that are germinating. Instead of taking the time to cutback plant material now and removing all of the insect nesting habitat, use this time to weed!

Latin might seem like an obscure, inscrutable language for naming plants. But it can open up the botanical world in ways you can’t imagine.

Every fall, there comes a moment as lovely and fleeting as a visit from a butterfly: when the ginkgo trees are golden. The incandescent yellow lasts for just a few days — sometimes only one — and then the leaves seem to all rain to ground at once, like the last shower of summer.

Slowing Down, Slowing Down, Slowing Down