“Despite the biodiversity crisis unfolding in real time all around us, we believe that butterflies and other animals can have a secure future. However, such...
“Over thousands of years, the sculpting of Japanese garden trees, or niwaki, has become a finely honed art with a distinctive set of pruning techniques mean...
Editor’s note:
This is one in a series of stories about women gardeners in the Rogue Valley.
“Why can’t we have flowers that come from local fields?...
“She planted, as soon as the first strip was ready, runner beans and a row of lettuce. ‘The runner bean,’ said her book, ‘is not over-particular,’ and Carol...
“On a fine May afternoon Caroline sat out in her garden admiring the Aesopus tulips.”
– Margery Sharp, “Four Gardens,” 1935
Last week I introduced Car...
“The six tulips stood straight as soldiers, proud as dukes, and gay as cockatoos. Their streaked petals, pink and creamy-white, had edges delicately fluted ...
Editor’s note:
This is one in a series of stories about women gardeners in the Rogue Valley.
“Working in the garden ... gives me a profound feeling ...
Literary Gardener host Rhonda Nowak talks with Master Gardener Jane Moyer, long-time coordinator of the MG practicum. Jane shares why she's been involved with t...
“The definition of weeds needs to be revised thus: all indigenous plants are wildflowers, and all non-native invasive introductions are weeds.”
— Matt...
“[T]he goal of ecological design is a garden that is dependent only on its own resources.”
— Matt Rees-Warren, “The Ecological Gardener,” 2021
Last w...
“Whether moved by rivers, held in lakes and aquifers, or suspended in giant ice sheets, freshwater is a precious resource to revere and respect, not least o...
Editor’s note:
This is one in a series of stories about women gardeners in the Rogue Valley.
“At the time of writing, [cannabis] is projected to be ...
Literary Gardener host Rhonda Nowak talks with Emily Gogol, co-founder and CEO of Infinite Tree, a cannabis R&D and organically grown plant nursery located in t...
“The one thing of which we are certain, in an uncertain universe, is that energy is never lost. It is transformed, but it never disappears.”
— The Prof...
“Day after day one looked up to skies of enameled blue, praying for rain. But no rain came.”
— Beverley Nichols, “Down the Garden Path,” 1932
For Engl...
“Even in the grimmest winter days a garden can give an appearance of discipline, and a certain amount of life and color, no matter how wild the winds nor da...
Literary Gardener host Rhonda Nowak talks with Rebecca Slosberg, education director of the Rogue Valley Farm to School program. This is the sixth episode in th...
“[T]o me the idea of American gardens remains undefined. The extremes of garden design, and what is possible to grow there, is fascinating to English eyes c...
