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Garden book review: ‘The Beginner’s Guide to Growing Great Vegetables’ Updated 12:37 PM; Facebook Share By Sally Peterson “The Beginner’s Guide to Growing Great Vegetables” by Lorene Edwards Forkner ($19.95, Timber Press): This is a comprehensive guide to gardening that goes well beyond being appropriate for just beginners. As someone who has enjoyed growing plants for more than 30 years, I found it a refreshing overview with an emphasis on nurturing vegetables and herbs in the ground or in containers. Her expertise is evident here. Growing region maps are beneficial and descrip...

‘Six times I have lamented my choice’: even top gardeners get it wrong We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Robin Powell Save Normal text size Advertisement Over the past 20 years plant collector, nurseryman, gardener and writer Dan Hinkley has created his masterpiece garden, Windcliff, on the edge of Washington State’s Puget Sound in the Pacific Northwest. He writes, disarmingly, in his new garden memoir Windcliff (Timber Press, $53) that none of it came easy. “In regard to original thought, the ability to visualise ...

What difference can one homeowner make to help animals who greatly need some assistance?  Quite a lot, it turns out. Yards can become a collective force for good. Critter cancel culture can be halted just outside your backdoor. “Especially in urban areas, small yards add up to large areas of land that can support animals, like birds and pollinators, or those yards can add up to areas in which it is really tough for animals to survive,” said Jennifer Phillips-Vanderberg, biologist and science director of the Western Great Lakes Bird and Bat Observatory in Port Washington. Phillips-Vanderb...

How to create a 'cottagecore' garden  – follow these five easy steps A recent report by the Royal Horticultural Society revealed 'cottagecore garden', the trend that boosts biodiversity, will boom this summer 6 April 2021 • 11:08am The interiors trend is set to rocket this summer   – bringing colour, comfort planting and beauty to gardens across the UK  Credit: Alamy  I still remember my first encounter with a cottage garden. After a four-hour car  journey from Reading to Mousehole, Cornwall, my three brothers and I, all under ten and desperate to escape the cramped back seat, tu...

$7.00 per person Recent headlines about global insect declines and three billion fewer birds in North America are a bleak reality check about how ineffective our current landscape designs have been at sustaining the plants and animals that sustain  us. Such losses are not an option if we wish to continue our current standard of living on Planet Earth. The good news is that none of this is inevitable. Join Pickering Creek as Dr. Doug Tallamy will discuss simple steps that each of us can- and must- take to reverse declining biodiversity and will explain why we, ourselves, are nature’s best ...