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CORRECTION APPENDEDGardeners are a hardy species, and those who rent apartments are like plants that refuse to die no matter what life, or the landlord, throws at them. Two years [...]

Leafy greens grow well in partial shade and will last longer before they bolt, or go to seed, and taste bitter. There is still time to plant seeds of arugula, [...]

Byline: Anne Raver When my husband and I started gardening on my family's Maryland farmstead more than 13 years, ago, we inherited the trees planted over the past century by [...]

Children's gardens often have that unfortunate dumbing-down-of-nature quality -- giant neon caterpillars, cutesy mushroom houses -- but there is no such condescension at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's new Discovery Garden, [...]

Kerry Trueman and Matt Rosenberg began by growing tomatoes on the roof of their third-floor walk-up in the West Village more than 20 years ago. ''We didn't know anything -- [...]

Herbs, tomatoes, blueberries, nasturtiums and many other edibles can flourish in window boxes, pots, hanging baskets and recycled containers. The only limitation is our imagination and willingness to experiment. Remember: [...]

Byline: Anne Raver I planted my peas a few days ago on one of those long-awaited spring mornings, when the breeze was soft and sweet, and the high, long whistle [...]

''I can't believe I've been running this event for 19 years, but you seem to keep coming back,'' Bob Hyland told the cheering crowd at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's auditorium [...]

WYNCOTE, Pa. -- Mary E. Myers, a landscape architect and associate professor at Temple University, had more than absorbing storm water in mind when she created a 200-square-foot rain garden [...]

NEW MILFORD, Conn. -- Kathleen Nelson can't tell a Ford from a Chevy, but she can spot mile-a-minute weed 100 yards away. ''Some people can tell cars apart -- I [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDWhen the High Line at the Rail Yards, the final section of the elevated park, opens on Sept. 21, we will no longer have to stop at 30th Street [...]

Sometimes when I am weeding in the late afternoon, I hear the vibrating wings of the ruby-throated hummingbird before I see it dipping its beak into the long tubular flowers [...]

MAYBE it's in our bones. That urge to seek water. To go down to the river. Years ago, when I lived in Brooklyn Heights, I would walk to the edge [...]

There's a lot of talk about habitat gardens, but how many gardeners have watched a zebra swallowtail butterfly laying its eggs on a pawpaw leaf and then noticed the fuzzy [...]

Garden books devoted to a single genus run the risk of simply being mind-numbing lists of species -- this one found in the mountains, by the opening of a hermit's [...]

This year, instead of ordering my favorite annual and vegetable seeds for my kitchen garden, I gave myself permission to imagine the garden I will create if Rock, my husband [...]

So what if you don't have 100 acres to call your own? W. Gary Smith, the landscape architect who has worked with Wayne and Beth Gibbens for 20 years, has [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDMIDDLEBURG, VA. -- This 100-acre rolling landscape in the middle of horse country was an old cornfield when Wayne and Beth Gibbens bought it in 1990. ''Not one tree [...]

This Thanksgiving, I'll be thanking the bugs, not the turkeys, for sustaining me in the wilderness. In my case, the wilderness was of the stink-bug variety. It all started about [...]

Gardeners brought up on the mishaps of Peter Rabbit can now curl up with ''Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Classic Children's Tales,'' by Marta [...]

Byline: Anne Raver When my husband and I started gardening on my family's Maryland farmstead more than 13 years, ago, we inherited the trees planted over the past century by [...]

ROXBURY, Conn. -- Peter Wooster, a designer who has created many houses and interiors, fell in love with plants about 30 years ago. And being a collector of beautiful objects, [...]

My friend Tonice Sgrignoli is growing two Early Moonbeam watermelons in a 12-inch clay pot on her fire escape in Long Island City, Queens. This is not easy, considering how [...]

KINDERHOOK, N.Y. -- The little passive-solar house that the architect Dennis Wedlick designed more than 25 years ago with his life partner, Curt DeVito, was state of the art back [...]

Downingtown, Pa. -- It's a shame that most of the voluptuous heirloom roses were dashed by the rains that have beaten down on David L. Culp's garden recently. Earlier this [...]

It's hard to imagine a wild Long Island with 40,000 acres of grasslands waving in Hempstead Plains, now covered with houses. Or thousands of wild orchids blooming in the bogs [...]

Grafted heirloom tomatoes are the hot tamale in the garden this year. And it makes sense when you think about it. I love my Brandywines for their incredible taste, but [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDHARTLAND, Vt. -- It was a perfect day for plowing, a little overcast with a cool breeze. You could hear the sound of the birds, the chink-chink-chink of the [...]

A mysterious strain of downy mildew has been killing one of the home gardener's favorite annual flowers, Impatiens walleriana, up and down the East and West Coasts, in the Midwest, [...]

Die-hard impatiens lovers who must have a sweep of nonstop color from April through the first frost might want to try torenia, or wishbone flower instead, so-called for the little [...]

SHELTER ISLAND, N.Y. -- Imagine going to your great-aunt's funeral and unexpectedly being offered an estate that harked back to the 17th century, complete with a plantation house where slaves [...]

HOLYOKE, Mass. -- It was the build-it-and-they-will-come principle that inspired two self-described plant geeks to buy a soulless duplex on a barren lot in this industrial city 10 years ago [...]

ROXBURY, CONN. -- Tovah Martin can't live without plants, so in the winter, she makes her garden indoors. Even when it falls to zero outside, as it did last week, [...]

Margaret Roach, the garden writer and blogger who lived out the fantasy of not only making it to the top (editorial director of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia), but also chucking [...]

SWARTHMORE, Pa. I'M not just a bark man,'' Charles Cresson said this month, as we stood by one of his towering camellias, covered with deep red blooms. ''I've always loved [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDPITTSBORO, N.C. LIKE her name, Siglinda Scarpa seems to be from another world. And not just Italy, where she was born. But one in which you can hear the [...]

LINWOOD, N.J. EXCEPT for a fallen Japanese cedar and some battered zinnias, Hurricane Sandy did little damage to the Linwood Arboretum, where 200 trees and shrubs continue to thrive in [...]

UNITY, Me. ORGANIC food may not be feeding the world yet, but it was feeding thousands of people at the Common Ground Country Fair last weekend. They lined up at [...]

IT'S time to leave the farm in Maryland. My brother has sold the fields that surround us and the new owner has put ''No Trespassing'' signs at the end of [...]

From Aug. 24 to 26, gardeners may be inspired by earth-friendly techniques while exploring the art historian George Schoellkopf's Hollister House Garden in Washington, Conn., below, at the symposium ''Gardening [...]

BALTIMORE DAHLIAS don't usually come back in the spring here the way they do in the South. But last year, the warm winter meant that those dahlia tubers -- the [...]