If you are at all like me, order your fall-planted bulbs now before you get too worn out. I curse myself every fall for taking my own advice after a zillion bulbs start showing up (not really, but it always seems like it). And as we all know, no matter how "done with" planting you may be, you will...

I've been on a sustainable gardening bent recently, so I thought I would share some of my resources related to the topic collected over the years. And like any list, this is only to whet your appetite; neither inclusive nor exclusive. I was first exposed to the concept of natural planting design...

Recently, I have been around a number of plants that makes one think of death and rebirth in some manner or another, and oddly enough each one has been quite beautiful. Let's start with the corpse flower (Amorphophallus titanium), which is also known as titan arum. Missouri Botanical...