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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 colorful array of heirloom squash fruits showcases a variety of shapes, sizes, and patterns, featuring rich greens, bright yellows, deep oranges, and unique mottled textures.

Edible

15 Heirloom Squash Varieties Perfect for the Thanksgiving Table

Heirloom winter squash is an autumn favorite with sweet and savory flavors. They also embellish a natural centerpiece in the spirit of a bountiful harvest. Explore the loveliest and tastiest heirlooms to enjoy as we gather this fall, celebrating heritage crops and foodways in the process.

A patch of small, smooth-leaved plants with rounded, slightly elongated leaves growing in dark soil, surrounded by healthy greenery from nearby plants.

Vegetables

13 Asian Greens You Should Plant This Season

Asian greens are popular worldwide tor their versatile flavor and rich nutrition. With quick-gorwing qualities and a preference for the cool season, now is the perfect time to plant the leafy culinary stars for prolific yields. Join gardening expert Katherine Rowe in exploring favorite crops with wide appeal.

Vibrant yellow flowers display soft, overlapping petals and a central yellow-orange column, offering the look of an orchid with constant blooms and a full, sunny appearance.

Houseplants

11 Orchids With Nearly Constant Blooms

Whether you’re an orchid expert or trying your hand at growing the exotic beauties, adding a long-blooming specimen to the collection increases the joy and diversity they offer. Some yield months of color, from easy-care varieties to more esoteric specimens. Explore the intrigue of long-flowering orchids with gardening expert Katherine Rowe for an extended display.

A focused shot of a red-pink flower that is one of the native plants fall

Ornamental Gardens

15 Native Plants To Get In The Ground This Fall

Fall is the time for a refreshing shake-up, from transplanting and dividing to incorporating new garden additions. Native plants offer high ornamental value and enrichment to the arrangement. This season, consider adding specimens for winter interest and lasting appeal, as well as wildflowers that benefit from chilly temperatures. Enjoy the extended merits of top-performing native selections with gardening expert Katherine Rowe.

Lovely garden design burgundy plants looking vibrant and healthy with a person holding shears to cut the blooms, with lush greens surrounding them

Ornamental Gardens

13 Gorgeous Garden Design Ideas Featuring Burgundy Plants

Dark and moody, handsome and stately, specimens with deep red flowers and foliage make a beautiful complement to green-leaved neighbors as striking opposites. With so many choices, the happy challenge is narrowing down the best selections for your landscape. Explore specimens that shine with dark distinction with gardening expert Katherine Rowe.

A shot of a window box with various autumn crops, plants and flower for a fall container garden

Gardening Tips

How to Plant The Perfect Fall Container Garden

It’s officially fall, and creative container arrangements let us celebrate the season in effortless style. It may be the most fun (and easiest) time of year to enhance seasonal motifs with gifts from the garden. Join gardening expert Katherine Rowe in a look at potted combinations tailored to autumn’s moods.

A close-up of pale, elongated root vegetables freshly harvested, their skins lightly streaked with brown and twisted contours. The vegetables rest on a bed of hay, surrounded by faint green foliage and remnants of soil clinging to the roots.

Vegetables

Why are My Parsnips Deformed and Misshapen?

Parsnips are a sweet, earthy, characteristic autumnal root vegetable. They’re also easy to grow and mostly problem-free. But root issues happen. Here, we’ll explore common causes of misshapen parsnips and how best to prevent them for a healthy, show-worthy harvest.

A decorative composition of multi-colored flowers of reblooming hydrangea

Shrubs

17 Best Varieties of Reblooming Hydrangeas You Can Plant Now

Autumn is the perfect time to add new hydrangeas to the garden for a summer spectacle. With varieties that repeat flower, we get months of color against a lush, leafy backdrop. Explore reblooming hydrangeas with gardening expert Katherine Rowe to make the most of the color-wielding picks.

The buttonbush shrub displays broad, lance-shaped green leaves with dense, ball-shaped white flowers covered in tiny protruding stamens.

Shrubs

How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Buttonbush

Buttonbush is a loose, informal native that tolerates wide-ranging conditions and offers numerous ecological benefits. The unique globe blooms and showy seed pods bring lasting seasonal interest while attracting pollinators and songbirds. Explore adding buttonbush to your garden’s native palette with expert Katherine Rowe.

This colorado native wildflower has delicate, feathery green leaves and slender, hairy stems that support bell-shaped flowers with soft, lavender petals and bright yellow centers.

Flowers

21 Native Wildflowers for Colorado Gardens

Colorado’s famed wildflowers enliven the landscape in a flash of welcomed color. With showy blooms and textures that offer multi-season appeal, they withstand cold winters and offer numerous ecosystem benefits. Fall is the time to sow many of the native favorites. Join gardening expert Katherine Rowe in exploring the Centennial State’s native bloomers.