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Katherine Rowe

Katherine is a garden professional with a background in design, conservation, and public horticulture. She holds a master’s degree in landscape architecture and a love of gardens, parks, and natural lands alike. Katherine enjoys exploring gardens and wild spaces through work and travel and designing gardens with nature at the helm.

A close-up of carrots growing in a garden bed featuring bright orange shoulders poking out of the soil and tufts of bright green finely dissected foliage on upright stems - one of the vegetables to plant in April.

Vegetables

13 Vegetables You Should Plant In April

The gardener's ode to April involves the business of planting and the enjoyment of nutrient-rich, fresh greens and cool season rewards. It means transplanting summer selections as conditions warm and seeing buds and blooms emerge with spring’s real arrival. Garden expert Katherine Rowe explores key vegetables to plant in April, including favorite varieties, for enjoyment throughout the warm season.

Native wildflowers blooming in Montana, tall, slender stems with deeply lobed green leaves and large drooping velvety wine-fire petals surrounding a dark, cone-shaped central disk.

Flowers

15 Native Wildflowers for Montana Gardens

Montana’s native wildflowers sway in the warm season landscape and buzz with activity from beneficial insects. With showy blooms and textures that offer multi-season interest, they withstand cold winters and offer numerous ecosystem benefits. Gardening expert Katherine Rowe explores the ornamental native blooms of Big Sky country to bring naturalized appeal.

Scarlet sage flowering plants have bright red tubular flowers with fringed edges growing from long, slender stems, surrounded by dark green, lance-shaped leaves.

Herbs

How to Plant, Grow, and Care For Scarlet Sage

Scarlet sage brings lively color and vibrant blooms that attract hummingbirds. The North American native is easy care and thrives with little tending in the right conditions. Join gardening expert Katherine Rowe in exploring the merits of the only red-blooming native sage.

A cluster of Solanum lycopersicum ‘Midnight Snack’ cherry tomatoes ripening on green vines.

Vegetables

15 Vitamin-Packed Vegetables to Grow This Season

Vitamin-packed vegetables are powerhouses of the edible landscape. They bring all the fresh flavor we crave while supplying important nutritional benefits, maximizing their space and worthiness in the garden. As we get sowing and growing this spring, garden expert Katherine Rowe explores top vegetables with loads of nutrition to include in the garden and on the plate.

Close up of bunch of freshly picked fresh eating carrots with elongated tapered bright orange roots with bright green tufts of feathery leaves on top, in hand of gardener, against green garden background.

Vegetables

Our 9 Favorite Carrots For Fresh Eating

The nutritional richness and sweet crunch of garden-fresh carrots are within reach. The compact root vegetables take up little space and do well with simple direct sowing. Tuck some into the vegetable bed this spring with selections prime for fresh eating. Garden expert Katherine Rowe explores top carrot varieties to sow now for that unmatched homegrown carrot appeal.

A gardener holds a freshly harvested bunch of colorful carrots variety, with vibrant orange, purple, and yellow roots and feathery green tops.

Vegetables

9 Colorful Carrot Varieties to Plant This Season

Before the classic orange carrot was its predecessors in purple, red, gold, and white. Today, there’s a resurgence in colorful carrot varieties to enliven fresh snacking and culinary experiences. Garden expert Katherine Rowe shares bright selections to easily incorporate into the vegetable garden this spring.

Rows of Daucus carota roots, bright orange and thick, partly emerging from dark, loose soil. The green feathery leaves are upright and dense above each root.

Vegetables

How To Grow Carrots From Seed: 5 Easy Steps

Growing carrots from seed lets us choose our favorite heirloom, organic, and conventional varieties and grow them in numbers for yields all season. Dedicating a patch or tucking them in among other plants makes the small-space crops versatile in garden locations. Garden expert Katherine Rowe explores how to grow carrots from seed for bright, colorful roots this summer.

Sweet corn planting tips. Peeled sweet corn cobs with rows of bright yellow kernels, in farmer's hand.

Edible

7 Sweet Corn Planting Tips to Try This Season

Sweet corn celebrates the flavors of summer and the sharing of fresh harvests straight from the garden. Gardening expert Katherine Rowe brings tips for planting the warm season signature to promote the best yields and flavor.

The garden bed is full of more and more snowdrop blooms featuring thin green stems holding delicate, nodding white flowers with three outer petals and a green-marked inner cup, rising above narrow, grass-like leaves.

Flowers

5 Tips for More Snowdrop Blooms Every Year

Snowdrops beckon spring with easy elegance. The early-flowering bulbs invigorate the frosty landscape with fresh greens and pure white bells. Join gardening expert Katherine Rowe in how to grow our snowdrop colonies for added enchantment each year.

A field of flowering lupines grown from seeds with tall, spiky flower clusters in shades of purple in dense whorls along the stems, rising above palmate green leaves with slender, pointed leaflets.

Flowers

How To Grow Lupines From Seed: 9 Expert Growing Tips

Lupines—favorite wildflowers with striking bell spikes and sweeps of warm season color—are easy to grow from seed in the right conditions. Seedlings get underway with a few steps to promote successful germination. Garden expert Katherine Rowe explores how to grow lupines from seed for bright, perennial blooms.