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Plant Profiles: How To Grow

Plant Profile: Turk’s Cap Lily (Lilium martagon)

Karen Meyers May 19, 2025 0 Comments

Known since 1568, this herbaceous perennial is a native of Europe and Asia. It is a member of the Liliaceae plant family that also includes tulips, fritillaries, and Quamash. Plants…

Garden Books

Book Review: Guide to Growing Organic Food

Karen Meyers May 16, 2025 0 Comments

Tanya Denckla Cobb’s book, Guide to Growing Organic Food, is a comprehensive guide to growing food crops by sustainable, organic methods. Cobb covers a wide range of science-backed practices with…

Vegetables

Edible Mushrooms: March Wax Cap (Hygrophorus marzuolus)

Karen May 15, 2025 0 Comments

The March wax cap grows singly, scattered or in clusters in the siliceous soil of mixed forests in the mountains of North America, Europe and Asia. It appears in the…

Garden Books

Book Review: How NOT to KILL Your Houseplant

Karen Meyers May 15, 2025 0 Comments

Veronica Peerless’ book, How NOT to KILL Your Houseplant, is a guide to successfully growing houseplants. With a unique format, the book offers basic information on growing plants indoors, profiles…

Plant Profiles: How To Grow

Plant Profile: Prostrate Sand Verbena (Abronia umbellata)

Karen May 14, 2025 0 Comments

Also known as beach sand verbena and purple sand verbena, this tender perennial is often grown as an annual and is a member of the four o’clock family, Nyctaginaceae, that…

Garden History

Plants for a Mary Garden: Quaking Grass ( Briza media) Our Lady’s Tresses

Karen Meyers May 13, 2025 0 Comments

At the time of Christ, women’s hair fashions were determined by both cultural practices and religious laws. Covering the hair with a scarf, veil or other fabric was considered a…

Garden Books

Book Review: Rekha’s Kitchen Garden

Karen Meyers May 13, 2025 0 Comments

Rekha Mistry’s book, Rekhas’s Kitchen Garden, is a guide to growing vegetables, herbs, and fruits. It follows the author’s activities as she plants, maintains, and harvests her garden for a…

Plant Profiles: How To Grow

Plant Profile: Wild Geranium (Geranium maculatum)

Karen Meyers May 12, 2025 0 Comments

This clump-forming herbaceous perennial is native to woodlands of eastern US from Maine to Georgia and west to the Dakotas and Oklahoma. It is a member of the Geraniaceae plant…

Garden Books

Book Review: A Guide to Wild Food Foraging

Karen Meyers May 9, 2025 0 Comments

David Squire’s book, A Guide to Wild Food Foraging, introduces readers to the possibilities and benefits of foraging and provides detailed information on over 100 wild edibles from meadowsweet, cowberry…

Plant Profiles: How To Grow Vegetables

Edible Mushrooms: Common Morel (Morchella esculenta aka M. esculentoides)

Karen Meyers May 8, 2025 0 Comments

Also known as sponge morel, haystack, may mushroom, yellow morel and Molly Moocher, this distinctive mushroom is found in Europe and North America where it grows singly or in groups…

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  • Plant Profile: Turk’s Cap Lily (Lilium martagon)
  • Book Review: Guide to Growing Organic Food
  • Edible Mushrooms: March Wax Cap (Hygrophorus marzuolus)
  • Book Review: How NOT to KILL Your Houseplant
  • Plant Profile: Prostrate Sand Verbena (Abronia umbellata)
  • Plants for a Mary Garden: Quaking Grass ( Briza media) Our Lady’s Tresses
  • Book Review: Rekha’s Kitchen Garden
  • Plant Profile: Wild Geranium (Geranium maculatum)
  • Book Review: A Guide to Wild Food Foraging
  • Edible Mushrooms: Common Morel (Morchella esculenta aka M. esculentoides)

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