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.

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Horticulture

CABBAGE & CO. • Niki Jabbour’s must-grow cole crops, plus tips and tasks for the season

AUTUMN CHECKLIST

A RAY OF HOPE • Native bees need space for foraging, and solar farms may be part of a solution

NATIVE TURF • Oat grasses and creeping wildflowers combine in a reimagined lawn at Cornell Botanic Gardens

PLANTS WE LOVE • Inaugural Plants of the Mt. Cuba Collection

PAPAYA LOVE • A dwarf version of this tropical tree brings interest—and, with hope, sweet fruits—to a Rhode Island container garden

STEVE FOLTZ • Working to build healthy habitats for animals and people alike

FOOD in FOCUS • SUMMER’S END IS THE PERFECT TIME TO BUILD A TACTICAL PLAN FOR NEXT YEAR’S VEGETABLE GARDEN

SIZE UP • DON’T SHY FROM BULKY PERENNIALS — EVEN AMID THEIR COMPACT COUSINS, THEY DESERVE THEIR SPACE

Growing Minds • Gardening provides key lessons to children as they move through ages and stages

TODDLER AND PRESCHOOLER

The Charms and Challenges of Mountain Ash • THE GENUS SORBUS COMPRISES MANY HANDSOME SPECIES THAT REWARD THE STEADFAST GARDENER WITH SEVERAL SEASONS OF BEAUTY

Sorbus sampler

Sorbus sampler

small & sweet • THE MOST DIMINUTIVE DAFFODILS ARE UP TO THE TASK OF SPREADING SPRING CHEER

DOWN TO EARTH • GARDENERS CAN HELP FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE BY ADOPTING THE SOIL-CARE METHODS ESPOUSED ON NO-TILL FARMS

RECOMMENDED READING

IT’S ELEMENTAL • Plants and animals are built of the same elements; where we differ lies in how we exist

BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN

EXPERT ADVICE: MAKE AN INSECT HAVEN

4 GROUND-LEVEL PLANTS FOR AUTUMN COLOR

ONE LAST LOOK

THE TWISTS AND TURNS OF A TOUR