Get Growing: News from the garden community in Lee and Collier counties

Get Growing: News from the garden community in Lee and Collier counties
Get Growing: news from the garden community in Lee and Collier counties.

New USDA plant hardiness map reflects global warming

New USDA plant hardiness map reflects global warming
Global warming is hitting not just home, but garden. The color-coded map of planting zones often seen on the back of seed packets is being updated by the government, illustrating a hotter 21st century.

Maintaining a winter compost pile

Maintaining a winter compost pile
During the cold weather there sometimes seems to be little to do other than to look seed catalogs and dream about the summer. If you want to get out in the garden a bit during the cold weather you may…

Helen Yemm’s Thorny problems: north-facing flower beds

Helen Yemm’s Thorny problems: north-facing flower beds
Helen Yemm answers your gardening questions on white-stemmed birches, mice, and north-facing “flower” beds.

New Jersery gardens: Third-graders learn what it takes to grow

New Jersery gardens: Third-graders learn what it takes to grow
Massimo McCormick with the prize-winning cabbage he grew last summer. You can call Massimo McCormick the king of cabbage. The West Orange 10-year-old grew a gigantic and highly photogenic cabbage of nearly 17 pounds that has won him a $1,000…

Top 10 ferneries from around Britain

Top 10 ferneries from around Britain
If you like ferns, visit any of the gardens in this list to get your fill.