Kimberly Sevilla, Owner of Rose Red & Lavender in Brooklyn, NY, has decided to try her hand at guerrilla gardening, which is the practice of gardening on land owned (and usually neglected) by another person …

A May “to-do” list for gardeners in the Northeast United States

A Rhode Island Master Gardener shares tips and gardening news for early spring

A Rhode Island Master Gardener shares current tips and news

Yellow-leaved plants are the stars of the awakening garden.

BY SEAN CONWAY/ Tiverton, Rhode Island, Zone 6b
THE MONTHS OF May and June mark the apex of many perennial gardens, especially those in cold-winter regions. More plants are in bloom during these two months than …

BY C. COLSTON BURRELL /Free Union, Virginia, Zone 7
WHEN I’m just too hot to pretend it’s still spring, and a full tree canopy has enshrouded my garden, woodland flowers give way to foliage. It is …

BY ROGER B. SWAIN / Monadnock, New Hampshire, Zone 5
Eight quarts to the peck, four pecks to the bushel—these are the dimensions of this year’s sour cherry harvest. The branches within reach of the ground …

BY GORDON HAYWARD / Putney, Vermont, Zone 4
During September and October, as the demands of caring for flowering shrubs and perennials wane, and before outdoor temperatures plummet, my attention often shifts to the many native …

As any seasoned gardener knows from repeated weeding, a garden—or any landscape for that matter—changes very rapidly without the constant vigilance of a caretaker.

Gardeners everywhere greet spring with enthusiasm, but the duration and severity of New England winters encourage those of us who garden here to regard with a certain ardor the first plants to emerge from the still-cold ground.