PATRICK MCDUFFEE believes that everyone should have at least one scented geranium on their windowsill year-round, for an on-demand invigorating whiff of fragrance, or to admire its colorful flowers—or to make a homebrewed cup of herbal tea from its leaves. Patrick is the third generation of his family to cultivate scented geraniums at Well-Sweep Herb Farm in rural New Jersey, where 80-something Pelargonium varieties are among some 2,000 different kinds of herb plants in the nursery’s amaz...| A Way To Garden
THE LAST TIME I spoke to Alla Olkhovska from her home and garden in Ukraine, she confessed to growing about 120 different types of Clematis—a number that after seeing her recently published e-book “Clematis Passports,” which profiles 140 kinds, I suspect has increased in the year and a half since that chat. Whatever the precise number, suffice it to say that Alla is devoted to growing and propagating Clematis, especially small-flowered ones, and photographing them and using them in cut ...| A Way To Garden
THERE MAY BE no moment in the year when my friend Ken Druse and I are more grateful for the range of textures and colors of foliage we made room for in our gardens than| A Way To Garden
HAVE YOU DONE your bulb shopping yet? It’s ordering time both for fall-blooming treats like Colchicum, which you can only buy now if you hurry,..| A Way To Garden
I WAS SCROLLING through Instagram the other day—yes, sometimes I just can’t help myself—when I saw a post by Matt Mattus about Christmas cactus. So..| A Way To Garden
I SUSPECT I’m not alone when I say that weather extremes in recent growing seasons have made me feel a bit like a stranger in..| A Way To Garden