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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.

Aster plants have clusters of star-shaped flowers with delicate, narrow petals in shades of purple and pink, and dense green leaves with serrated edges along tall, slender stems.

Ornamental Gardens

17 Perennial Seeds to Sow in September

September brings varying conditions as summer moves to fall. It’s an exciting time in the garden with colorful changes and cooling temperatures. Pressures of the warm season ease, with less heat stress and fewer weeds and pest disturbances. It can be an all-around more relaxing and productive month to garden. Depending on your climate, perennial seeds sown this month produce before frost or overwinter for a spring display. Join gardening expert Katherine Rowe in exploring options for September planting.

A dense cluster of colorful flowers, including yellow, orange, purple, and pink blooms, creates a vibrant, multi-colored display.

Ornamental Gardens

7 Tips For Dividing Chrysanthemums

With hints of fall in the late summer garden, our thoughts turn to cooler days and autumnal displays. Hardy mums are a hallmark of the season, brightening front porches and garden borders. These perennials are an asset year-round and benefit from dividing over time. Gardening expert Katherine Rowe shares tips for the easy process of expanding chrysanthemums in your collection.

A Cornflower plant with bright blue and pink fringed petals and slender green stems topped with narrow leaves.

Flowers

13 Annual Flower Seeds to Plant in September

This month, gardeners in warm climates can plant their shoulder-season blooms to establish before heavy frost. In colder regions, direct sow hardy annuals for a spring surprise or start them indoors to overwinter for robust plants come early spring. Enjoy extended color from sowing seasonal growers with gardening expert Katherine Rowe.

The Redbud tree in bloom is adorned with vibrant clusters of small, bright pink to purplish flowers that emerge in dense, upright clusters along its branches.

Trees

23 Different Redbud Tree Varieties For the Home Garden

Redbud trees grace the garden with a vivid floral spray to welcome spring. Among the earliest to flower post-winter, the bloom-lined stems create a cheerful glow visible from near and far. Dynamic heart-shaped foliage follows the sweet bloom spectacle for lasting summer and fall interest. Explore these understory beauties in flower and foliage with gardening expert Katherine Rowe.

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Shrubs

How to Plant, Grow, and Care for ‘At Last®’ Roses

‘At Last’ roses bring double rosettes in sunset tones that flower nonstop from early summer through frost. With the beauty of a hybrid tea and the durability of a landscape rose, this effortless selection boasts disease resistance and easy care. Explore this sturdy rose, brimming with romance and sweet perfume, with garden expert Katherine Rowe.

xeriscape garden with Annuals and Perennials

Ornamental Gardens

27 Low-Maintenance Perennial Plants for Home Landscapes

Perennials anchor the garden, embellishing the display year after year with color and textural interest that gets bigger and better with age. Rely on tried-and-true perennials to do the heavy lifting with little gardener effort. Explore superior perennials whose rugged nature belies their beauty with gardening expert Katherine Rowe.

Lobularia maritima has small, gray-green, narrow leaves and produces dense clusters of tiny, fragrant flowers in white that form a carpet-like mat.

Ornamental Gardens

19 Garden Plants That Will Grow in Sun or Shade

Garden transition zones often call for plants that span sunny and shady conditions. Short of full sun to deep shade, options abound to bridge areas with varying exposures. Certain species and varieties fit sun and shade circumstances depending on your growing area and climate (including sun and heat intensity). Explore plant selections to bridge light conditions with gardening expert Katherine Rowe.

Thich plants pink leaves appearing vibrant and vivid in a sunny area, having deep green and purple hues

Ornamental Gardens

21 Garden Plants With Pink Leaves

Depending on the tone, pink foliage has the power to calm and unify or ignite and enliven the planting display. From chaotic magenta brushes to light blush tinges, pink leaves create striking visual interest among other leafy greens and flowering specimens. Join gardening expert Katherine Rowe in exploring garden plants in the prettiest of pinks.

A cluster of 'Peach Drift' roses, their delicate petals unfurling in shades of pink and orange, adorn the scene. Nestled amidst verdant foliage, their vibrant hues create a captivating contrast, inviting admiration.

Ornamental Gardens

How to Plant, Grow, and Care For Drift Roses

Drift roses are compact, vigorous, disease-resistant roses that grow in a variety of conditions with ease. A wave of blooms emerges in late spring and repeat-flowers through frost. With their quick growth, mannerly size, and abundance of soft flowers, Drifts create an eye-catching display in versatile garden locations. Join gardening expert Katherine Rowe in exploring how to foster these easy going shrubs and their delicate appeal.

Two plump, white bulbs with tight, papery skins, resting on a wooden surface with their pointed tips slightly angled outward.

Edible

How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Silver White Softneck Garlic

‘Silver White’ is a crisp white garlic with a mellow, enjoy-it-everyday flavor. It’s an easygoing softneck variety that performs reliability across variable climates, including maritime and humid conditions. Explore the easy care of this favorite selection - both in growing and eating - with gardening expert Katherine Rowe.

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Vines

How and When To Prune Wisteria: 5 Expert Tips

Wisteria is a stunning flowering vine with draping leaves, pendulous blooms, and a heavy fragrance. The wild beauty is unparalleled in mid-spring when its flowers appear. It’s also highly vigorous and can overwhelm a space without proper pruning. Explore how to prune wisteria, including American and Kentucky species, for best growth and flowering with gardening expert Katherine Rowe.