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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.

Osteospermum in full bloom, showing vibrant deep purple and soft pink flowers with narrow, symmetrical petals and contrasting dark centers, complemented by dense, toothed green leaves and sturdy, branching stems.

Flowers

23 Mum Alternatives for Your Thanksgiving Display

We love mums for their cheery charm and burst of seasonal welcome. With many having bloomed or on their way out, lots of options remain to enliven and extend the autumnal arrangement. With simple alternatives, the Thanksgiving display overflows with lasting color. Explore bountiful fall blooms and exciting foliage to decorate the season’s gatherings and beyond.

Grape plant with ripe, oval-shaped blue-purple clusters of fruit, hanging from thick stems, surrounded by large, deeply lobed leaves with serrated edges in vibrant red-orange fall colors.

Fruits

12 Grape Varieties With Beautiful Fall Color

Grapevines gift the grower with flavorful bunches for fresh eating, juices, jams, and winemaking. Their handsome foliage offers shade on trellises and arbors. And a lesser-celebrated feature is their brilliant fall color. Add top-performing, glowing grapevines to your home vineyard with gardening expert Katherine Rowe.

A close-up of gloved hands placing mulch around a young green shrub in the garden, with fresh soil and hints of greenery surrounding it.

Gardening Tips

9 Ways To Protect Vulnerable Perennial Plants From Winter Damage

As our gardens prepare for a winter rest, a little extra protection for favorite borderline perennials may be in order. With extra care, from easy mulch to added insulation, winterizing measures give a good foundation for them to withstand cold weather. Explore winter protection for those too-special-to-lose perennials with gardening expert Katherine Rowe.

A stunning field filled with deep purple Muscari flowers stretching across the ground, bordered by vibrant yellow flowers along one side, under a bright blue sky.

Bulbs

15 Early-Flowering Bulbs You Can Plant In November

With easy bulb planting in November, we look forward to the blooms that welcome spring. To get a jumpstart on cheerful color, look to award-winning, early-flowering varieties. These rise through frosty - even snowy- conditions, gracing the late winter and early spring landscape with a surprise show.

Petite golden-yellow flowers of a mini daffodil variety, with prominent trumpets and slightly flared edges, bloom atop thin, upright stems, accompanied by slender, grass-like green leaves that add a delicate, airy appearance.

Bulbs

13 Mini Daffodil Varieties to Plant This Season

Daffodils, with their trumpets that announce spring’s arrival, offer variations in miniature forms with picture-perfect blooms. Worthy of a marvel, join gardening expert Katherine Rowe in celebrating the miniatures that welcome the warm season in waves of color, whimsy, and great detail.

The heirloom flower bulbs produce dense clusters of soft pink, fragrant blooms, supported by broad, glossy green leaves.

Bulbs

17 Heirloom Flower Bulbs to Plant This Season

Heirloom bulbs promote visual and genetic diversity in our gardens. Their variations in flower forms, shapes, colors, and bloom times bring no end to their seasonal appeal. Their strong performance, sometimes spanning centuries, is a testament to their lasting value. Broaden the display with these prized heirloom flowering bulbs, perfect for planting this fall.

The daffodils feature large, trumpet-shaped blooms with white, ruffled petals and deep orange, frilled cups, set against long, slender, green leaves and sturdy, upright stems.

Bulbs

15 Daffodil Varieties With Extra Large Blooms

Daffodils announce spring’s arrival in the loveliest ways with sunny yellows, warm peaches, and pristine forms. With oversized trumpets, cups, and double blooms, the show stops visitors in their tracks. Join gardening expert Katherine Rowe in giving spring a big welcome with extra large daffodils, perfect for planting this fall.

potted Pink chrysanthemums wrapped in burlap with more pink flowers in the background.

Ornamental Gardens

Our Favorite 19 Perennials That Show Off In Fall

Among autumn’s muted hues and fading foliage are perennials that rise to glory with the changing conditions. With renewed vigor, they extend the garden’s life with color and form. Revel in the showy attributes of fall’s star performers with gardening expert Katherine Rowe.

On the light windowsill, glass vases filled with water hold bulbous flowering plants, including yellow daffodils, white, purple, and red tulips, and unopened green buds of Amaryllis.

Bulbs

Plant These 13 Flowering Bulbs Now For Holiday Displays

November is the time to force bulbs indoors for holiday displays and gifts. The spring-flowering beauties bring early cheer to the beholder. Explore holiday bulb inspirations to pot up this month for a holiday bloom with gardening expert Katherine Rowe.