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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.

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Gardening Inspiration

15 Gift Ideas for Dads Who Love to Garden

Father’s Day brings the opportunity to treat the special people in our lives with thoughtful, functional, and lasting garden gifts. For Dads who enjoy gardening, a garden-related gift is the best! Join gardener Katherine Rowe in reviewing top picks to gift this Father’s Day.

Close-up of a mint plant - one of the cold-hardy herbs growing in a container with a layer of white snow on the soil.

Herbs

25 Cold-Hardy Herbs That Survive Winter in the Garden

As we get to planting fresh herbs, it’s helpful to add selections that last for seasons to come. For gardeners in cold climates, winter-hardy perennial herbs abound for lasting enjoyment. Join gardening expert Katherine Rowe for cold-hardy herbs to grow this season and beyond.

A woman arranges a bouquet of stunning cut hydrangea flowers in pink and purple hues in a white vase, placed on a white table in the kitchen.

Shrubs

5 Tips for Long-Lasting Cut Hydrangea Blooms

Hydrangeas delight us in the garden and fresh floral arrangements all summer long. Their stunning blooms, in a variety of shapes, sizes, and colors, offer boundless options for elegant and easy-going fresh flower displays. Drying hydrangea blooms makes the beauty last even longer. Join garden expert Katherine Rowe in exchanging simple tips for long-lasting cut hydrangeas.

The PeeGee Hydrangea features sturdy, woody stems, dark green, serrated leaves, and large, conical clusters of white flowers that turn pink as they mature.

Shrubs

How to Plant, Grow, and Care for ‘PeeGee’ Hydrangeas

For a classic, reliable hydrangea with old garden grace, look to the splendid ‘PeeGee’ panicle hydrangea. In cultivation for over 150 years, ‘PeeGee’ hydrangeas grow in a wide range of garden conditions. Here, garden expert Katherine Rowe explores the appeal of growing this old-fashioned, big-blooming hydrangea.

A tiered garden bed featuring vibrant herb plants arranged neatly, bathed in soft sunlight.

Herbs

21 Herbs for Your Perennial Edible Garden

Perennial herbs bring years of culinary goodness to the edible garden, high ornamental value, and pollinator enrichment. Explore favorite perennial herb selections with gardening expert Katherine Rowe for enticing selections to grow this season.

A cluster of ripe cherry tomatoes, vibrant reds and yellows mingling; their surfaces shimmering with droplets of moisture.

Vegetables

17 Cherry Tomatoes for Your Summer Garden

Before we know it, our tomato plants will burst with summer goodness. Cherry tomatoes are among the earliest to mature, offering dynamic flavor, bold color, and prolific fruiting. With gardening expert Katherine Rowe, explore your favorite cherry tomato varieties to grow this season. Select the best in flavor, color, and plant vigor.

Vivid purple Epimedium flowers bloom; their delicate petals unfurling gracefully against a blurred backdrop of verdant leaves.

Ornamental Gardens

How to Plant, Grow, and Care For Epimediums

Epimediums are small perennials that grace the shade garden with colorful foliage and flowers. Cultivated in numerous varieties, epimediums are carefree growers whose dynamic leaves and flowers bring a gentle “wow” to woodland plantings in spring and beyond. Join garden professional Katherine Rowe in exploring how to incorporate epimediums into shady garden sites.

Assorted black pots of aromatic herbs rest on the steps of a rustic metal staircase, creating a delightful herb garden display.

Herbs

21 Heat-Tolerant Herbs For Hot Climates

With spring comes welcomed warming temperatures, and for gardeners in hot climates, it’s prime time to start growing heat-tolerant herbs for a summer harvest. There’s no shortage of herbs that can take the heat, and some varieties make great alternatives to those that thrive in cooler seasons. We’ll enjoy harvests by the bunches all summer with the right heat-tolerant herbs. Join gardening expert Katherine Rowe in exploring heat-tolerant herbs to withstand hot summers.

beautiful foliage roses. Close-up of blooming roses 'Father Hugo' which feature gracefully arching stems with finely divided, fern-like leaves and is adorned with abundant, small, pale yellow, single-petaled flowers.

Flowers

15 Roses With Beautiful Foliage

As we plant roses this season, let’s look beyond the blooms (just a little) to the complement of unique leaves. Colorful new growth, delicate leaf shape, and outstanding fall color bring added beauty to the rose garden. Join garden professional Katherine Rowe in exploring roses with beautiful foliage for multi-season interest.

June flowers. Helenium plants exhibit robust stems and elongated leaves, providing a verdant backdrop to their striking, daisy-like flowers characterized by prominent cone-shaped centers and bright red petals shining under full sun in the garden.

Flowers

21 Flowers to Plant in June

With summer on the horizon, the warming temperatures and lengthening days make June the perfect month to plant warm-season flowers. In this article, garden expert Katherine Rowe explores favorite heat-loving annuals and perennials to plant in June.

Close-up of great maiden's blush roses displaying soft, creamy-pink petals in densely layered blooms, set against a backdrop of glossy, dark green, oval-shaped leaves.

Flowers

How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Great Maiden’s Blush Roses

‘Great Maiden’s Blush’ roses are charming old garden roses with a history dating back to the 15th century. Clusters of blush pink rosettes carry exceptional fragrance, and blue-gray leaves complement the rose’s attractive form. Gardening expert Katherine Rowe explores the many merits of these beautiful roses for any garden collection.

A daphne shrub with small purple flowers, which have a delicate and vibrant appearance, accompanied by small, glossy green leaves that create a contrasting backdrop.

Shrubs

9 Flowering Daphne Varieties For Your Landscape

Flowering daphne carries divine fragrance, flowers, and foliage. These attractive woody shrubs are multi-season jewels in the shade garden. In this article, gardening expert Katherine Rowe explores versatile flowering daphne varieties for your best fragrance-garden selections.