Horticulture

Since 1904, Horticulture Magazine has provided avid gardeners and plantspeople with accurate, compelling coverage of gardens and the plants and design techniques that truly make them shine. Our in-depth features take you to outstanding gardens and explain their plants and practices.

EDITOR’S NOTE

Horticulture

TIME CAPSULES • Exploring the very modern virtues of heirloom bulbs

SNACK-SIZED SUMMER • Cherry tomatoes make the season, and food gardening goes micro

SUMMER CHECKLIST

PLANTS WE LOVE • Planted Pyrotechnics

CONSERVATION NEEDS CONVERSATION • A recent study found that our actions influence our neighbors’ water usage, but it helps to talk about what we do, too

ALL TOGETHER NOW • A forest is more than a collection of individual plants, just as a human being is more than just a collection of cells

GROWING ON • Greg Coppa provides an update on some of his past challenges and observations

Places, Please • WHERE YOU PUT YOUR POTS IS JUST AS POWERFUL AS THE PLANTS YOU PUT IN THEM

The Container Garden

If the Pot Fits

FERNING THE TABLE • ENHANCE A SHADY SPOT WITH A FUN-TO-MAKE MICRO WOODLAND TABLEAU

THOUGHTS ON DESIGN

FERNS UNDER A FOOT (TALL)

TIME TO ROCK OUT

a Seat at the Table

KALEIDO BLOOMS • We often speak of variegated foliage, but let’s not forget the merits of striped, spotted and streaked flowers

THE PLASTIC-FREE GARDEN • With a little effort, we can pare down our reliance on this problematic material

SUMMER READING • Kick back with one of these recent releases

MUST-READ: UNDER WESTERN SKIES

SILVER & SUCCULENT • A central Los Angeles garden reflects its maker’s philosophy on landscapes, ecology and gardening into the future

PETER ZALE • An intrepid plant explorer, he now calls Longwood Gardens his home base

WORTH A SHOT

TYLER ARBORETUM

5 FAVORITE PLANTS FOR BLOCKING WEEDS

ZEN AND THE ART OF TOTAL GARDEN TERROR