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Quite often, it’s the vining vegetables that cause the unruliness: never-ending indeterminate tomatoes, crazy-prolific cucumbers,... more

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Finally the world of fashion has stumbled on one of our great loves—fungi.

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Butterfly Bushes, Torch Lilies, and More

After a year of extraordinary challenges, we are looking forward to all that summer 2021 has to offer in the Lavin Plant Evaluation Garden.

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Plants and Gardening

Sex, scandals, and, oh, that wisteria

Julie McCaffrey

A Beatrix Potter-ish Spring Garden

Alicia Green

Celebrating Oaks on Arbor Day

Boyce Tankersley

How-To

Protect Spring Plantings When Cold Returns

Baby, it’s Cold Outside!

Nina Koziol

How to Make a Pumpkin Volcano

Erin Benassi

Wildlife

Top 5 Spots for Winter Birding at the Garden

Leena Saleh

Under-the-radar nature in fall

Jim Jabcon

Plants and wildlife thrive together

Leena Saleh