Editor’s Blog

This is my first time posting a Tribulation, and I think I’ll start out with my biggest—both literally and figuratively. It is, plain and simple, our back yard.

Where I live, it’s getting to be that time of year when we can look back over the growing season and think about what went wrong or right. Two little triumphs stand out in my mind from the summer of …

You may recall that way back in April Nest in Style podcast hosts Jayme Jenkins and Teresa O’Connor teamed up with Proven Winners to give several lucky listeners a great big box of Proven Winners plants.

The waiting is the hardest part, Every day you get one more yard, You take it on faith, you take it to the heart, The waiting is the hardest part. —Tom Petty For the past month or so I’ve partook …

This year it seems like autumn is coming early where I live. The nights are already pretty cool—60s—and for the past few weeks we’ve had regular (and at times heavy) rain. Rather than sink into “divine despair,” I got a jump on fall planting.

“My mama loves me, she loves me, she get down on her knees and hug me. She loves me like a rock . . .” —Paul Simon I have plenty of rocks in my garden. Whenever I plant, I usually …

We just put the finishing touches on Horticulture‘s September/October issue and shipped it off to the printing press. The final week always feels a bit like a very long labor, as there are always loose ends that need to be …

Early this summer I received two free tomato plants from Log House Plants, a wholesale grower based in Oregon. They are both the same variety—’Big Beef’—but there’s an important difference between the plants. One is a SuperNaturals Mighty ‘Mato grafted …

I’ve named my garden! Maybe it’s because I love Agatha Christie mysteries—where there’s always a gardener or two lurking about, and all the homes have quaint names and gorgeous borders. Or maybe when I spent most of 2009 immersed in …

Recently my parents bought a new home and we just had the chance to go see it. I was immediately struck, as they had been, by its gardens! It is clear that the former owners were passionate gardeners who incorporated …