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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.

'Zephirine Drouhin' Rose features delicate, rich pink roses, surrounded by dark green, glossy leaves and thornless, arching stems.

Flowers

How to Plant, Grow, and Care for ‘Zephirine Drouhin’ Roses

‘Zephirine Drouhin’ is an old garden rose with abundant blooms, superior fragrance, and loose, full rosettes. As Bourbon roses, these historic hybrids bring high fragrance and vigor in a climbing form. Explore this favorite heirloom, deserving of a spot in today’s garden, with gardening expert Katherine Rowe.

Close up of greenstalk planters with flowering Gomphrena globosa serres plants in the garden.

Gardening Tips

17 Crops to Plant In Your Greenstalk Planter This Labor Day

An easy way to incorporate late-season crops into the rotation is with a Greenstalk planter. These vertical arrangements save space while allowing plenty of growing room. Grow your vegetables vertically with easy watering and planting pockets. Here, garden expert Katherine rowe explores crops to plant this Labor Day while saving space (and effort!).

A close-up of large, heart-shaped leaves with deep green centers and wide, creamy white margins, creating a bold, contrasting pattern in a dense cluster.

Ornamental Gardens

21 Outdoor Plants With Variegated Leaves

Variegated plants are a hot topic among gardeners. Many of us are partial to stable patterns or color arrangements, while others appreciate random variations. And some don’t need to see a variegated leaf again. Used with restraint in complementary planting combinations, variegated foliage adds visual interest through texture and color. It brightens dull areas or creates a focal point to draw the eye. Gardening expert Katherine Rowe explores color-varying leaves that may be a fit for your collection

View of a beginner balcony garden with green shutters, featuring blooming multi-colored petunias in large flower pots and tall young citrus trees, styled in an Italian-inspired setting.

Gardening Inspiration

How To Create A Balcony Garden For Complete Beginners

Whether starting with a single container or expanding your collection, we have the top growing tips for successful arrangements. Establishing the foundation for healthy plants and making the proper selections goes a long way toward overcoming elevated garden challenges. Explore how to grow productive, beautiful plants in your balcony confines with gardening expert Katherine Rowe.

The German White Stiffneck Garlic features large, plump bulbs with a papery white skin, each clove encased in a smooth, white sheath.

Edible

How to Plant, Grow, and Care for German White Stiffneck Garlic

‘German White’ has picture-perfect bulbs that are the definition of hearty garlic. These silvery-white, large heads have plump, flavorful cloves that are intense without being overwhelming. Garden expert Katherine Rowe explores the slow heat and sweet rewards of growing this reliable garlic.

An array of tall, vibrant, yellow helianthus annus bloom, growing in a garden, basking in the sun.

Flowers

12 Fall-Colored Sunflowers to Plant In August

Sunflowers are in full swing as we move into late summer. In the fall, they make vibrant additions to seasonal displays in harvest colors in the garden bed and containers. Pollinators and birds, too, appreciate their lasting interest. Explore options for growing late-season annual and perennial sunflower selections with garden expert Katherine Rowe.

A cheerful array of colorful, vibrant pansies with large, round, overlapping petals in an array of colors including deep purples, and yellows, each with a distinct dark blotch at the center.

Flowers

15 Cool-Season Flowers You Should Plant Now

Nature has a way of bringing the cool season just in time to relieve a fading summer garden. Autumn brings a flush of fresh growth and flowering and an opportunity to extend the display with cool-season blooms. Many gardeners can start planting their shoulder-season blooms in late summer to establish before heavy frost. Enjoy a burst of warm color on upcoming chilly days by starting cool-season selections now. Explore timely seasonal growers with garden expert Katherine Rowe.

A field of poppies with bright, crinkled petals in a striking shade of red atop slender green stems, with delicate, feathery foliage

Flowers

When To Plant Cool Season Flowers To Prolong Your Garden Blooms

Cool-season flowers play a special role as the peak growing season winds down in autumn or ramps up in spring. They are the entertainers who fill display gaps while much of the garden takes intermission. Rely on bloomers that thrive in cool conditions for extended appeal. Join gardener Katherine Rowe in exploring when to plant cool flowers.

The Music Hardneck Garlic has large, plump cloves encased in a thick, papery skin with a hint of purple streaking, and the bulbs are robust and well-formed, with a central woody stem.

Edible

How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Music Hardneck Garlic

‘Music’ hardneck garlic is a crescendo of flavor in the summer garlic scene. The robust cloves - in size and flavor- bring a punch of spice followed by sweet notes in classic flavor. This culinary favorite is adaptable and easy to grow. Explore how to grow ‘Music’ with gardener Katherine Rowe.

A close-up of a wooden bowl full of Sulfur, which is a bright, yellow, powdery substance often used in the garden to lower soil pH.

Soil Building

How to Lower Your Soil pH With Garden Sulfur

If you have alkaline soils with a high pH, plants face the challenge of a lack of accessible nutrients. Amending with garden sulfur is an easy way to work towards optimal pH levels. If you hope to grow healthier ornamentals and edibles or encourage those bluest of blue hydrangea blooms, explore sulfur as an amendment with garden expert Katherine Rowe.