July/August 2024

Horticulture

Horticulture Magazine

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The Art & Science of Smart Gardening Editor Meghan ShinnContributing Editor Jennifer Howell COLUMNISTS Scott Beuerlein | Thomas Christopher | Greg Coppa Jeff Cox | Niki Jabbour | Mary Purpura DESIGN Associate Art Director Carrie ToppExecutive Editor
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Succeed With Succession
BY JULY many of the early-planted vegetables in my garden are finished and it’s time to get serious about succession planting. Once a crop like spring turnips or snap peas has finished, I tidy up the bed, amend the soil with a thin layer of compost a
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Richard Hawke
AS DIRECTOR OF Ornamental Plant Research at the Chicago Botanic Garden, Richard Hawke evaluates perennials and woody plants for garden merit. In 2023, he received the Arthur Hoyt Scott Medal & Award, which recognizes someone who has made an outstandi
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Goldenseal
WHEN EUROPEANS stepped off their boats onto the land of the Native Americans in the early 1600s, there were no drugs or doctors as they had known them in their homelands. For healing drugs, they turned to the Native Americans who had been relying for
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An Annual Affair
New Jersey garden designer and educator Laura Janney works from the premise that plants bring happiness. Through her design studio, The Inspired Garden, she helps homeowners determine their preferred garden style, then draws up a plan that will creat
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Editor’s Note
GARDEN ALL-STARS! That’s the thread running through this summertime issue of Horticulture. Although I hope that all is going and growing smoothly in your gardens, it’s highly possible something is faltering. That’s just a reality of gardening, one th
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Flying Colors
Here are some top performers from just a few of the plant evaluations led by Richard Hawke over the past three decades, as he described them in each trial’s Plant Evaluation Notes, which can all be viewed in full at www.chicagobotanic.org/collections
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Outside Of The Box
What shrub would you recommend for structure in the garden? Some of us might suggest boxwood (Buxus), and for good reason. These popular evergreens have been cultivated for thousands of years, beginning with the Egyptians and continuing into the 21st
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Prized Perennials
As any gardener past year one knows, sometimes plants fail. It could be from extreme weather, browsing deer or rabbits, an increase or decrease in sun or reasons simply unknown, but holes develop and replacements become necessary. Particularly when c
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Changes & CHOICES
If you’re confused about what to plant now, you’re not alone. Rapidly shifting climate conditions, from drought to floods and fires to ice storms, have many of us rethinking our approach to gardening. I asked industry experts across the country to sh
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New Plants
EACH YEAR plant brands release exciting new cultivars to market, the results of years of breeding, selecting, trialing and propagating. New plants are bred to enhance traits that make them stand out against comparable cultivars—and in your garden. On
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A Toast To Cork
RECENTLY I WAS FORTUNATE enough to visit Portugal during a late, golden fall when the weather was still quite mild. We did most sightseeing along the legendary Douro River Valley but made a dash into Spain and spent time in the beautiful capital city
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Weeding Out Worry
AS GARDENERS, we know we feel better when we’re working in the garden. Nothing pulls weeds faster than a few frustrations, but it’s much more than that. When we work in our gardens, we get physical activity in the outdoors; we have a front-row seat t
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The Garden Center’s Grip
SOMETHING WEIRD HAPPENS when gardeners enter a garden center. We change. Suddenly, somehow, we’re overcome with this vague yet powerful, transcendental feeling of liberation, and we become aware of money we probably have and hopefully won’t otherwise
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A Big Role for SMALL GRASSES
When you experience a landscape dominated by grasses, something magical happens. The wind is made manifest in undulating waves as it sweeps across their blades and blooms. The sound and movement are mesmerizing. Grasses can transform and elevate our

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