Horticulture

A POT OF PATIENCE

I’VE ALWAYS PREFERRED starting my garden plants from seed, and a recent conversation with Anna Fialkoff on my Growing Greener podcast has opened up new horizons in that respect. Anna is the Ecological Programs Manager of the Wild Seed Project in North Yarmouth, Maine. She described to me her organization’s program to make it easy for gardeners to sow native plants for their gardens.

This is important because so many of

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