Window boxes exude old-world charm and enhance the connection between home and garden. They add vertical interest in endless plant combinations for spectacular color, texture, and form. Explore a few window box favorites with garden designer Katherine Rowe for an overflowing display of blooms this season.
Heirloom vegetables bring exceptional flavor and diversity to the garden. With so many rich selections, it’s easy to incorporate history and culture into what we grow and eat. Here, let’s look at a few of the best heirloom varieties to sow this spring. Join garden expert Katherine Rowe in exploring a glimpse of our food heritage through mouth-watering heirloom vegetables.
Climbing roses fill the garden with vertical interest through their abundant blooms, fragrance, form, and multi-season appeal. Explore how to plant, grow, and care for these (mostly) easy-going beauties with gardening expert Katherine Rowe.
Mass planting is a simple way to achieve a harmonious landscape befitting any garden style. Design your garden with groups of plants “en masse” in drifts for high impact and visual appeal. Join landscape designer Katherine Rowe in exploring mass planting selections for gorgeous garden arrangements.
Climbing roses thrill the garden with vertical color and form, not to mention fragrance. For a robust, overflowing display of blooms with ample foliage, learn how to train climbing roses with gardening expert Katherine Rowe.
May is prime planting time, and as we dig in after the final frost and welcome sunshine-filled days, it’s exciting to choose flowers for the garden. In this article, garden expert Katherine Rowe explores favorite spring annuals and perennials to plant in May.
‘New Dawn’ roses may just be the perfect climbing rose. These vigorous, disease-resistant roses grow in a variety of conditions with ease. A profusion of lightly fragrant, blush pink blooms emerge in clusters in late spring, with repeat blooming through the fall. Showy rosehips extend the plant’s interest into winter. With their quick growth and abundance of soft flowers, ‘New Dawn’ roses make a stunning focal point in the garden. Join garden expert Katherine Rowe in exploring how to plant, grow, and care for ‘New Dawn’ roses.
Peach and apricot roses abound in colors, from rustic, pale peach to the most vibrant, juicy apricot. A classic in the garden with contemporary twists, their luscious blooms bring warmth and vibrance to enliven and harmonize the landscape. Join gardening expert Katherine Rowe in indulging in popular peach and apricot roses to delight the garden senses.
Roses grace the garden with gorgeous blooms, fragrance, and form. They also produce beautiful rosehips! Extend the interest in roses by fostering hips that enliven the fall and winter garden in all sizes, shapes, and colors. Rosehips are also a valuable food source for wildlife. Energize the cool season garden with roses that produce abundant hips. Join garden professional Katherine Rowe in exploring roses with beautiful hips for multi-season interest.
Looking for a vigorous evergreen with multiseason impact? ‘Nellie R. Stevens’ holly grows quickly with attractive form, foliage, and fruits. Loads of bright red berries shine against glossy green leaves in winter. Explore how to plant, grow, and care for Nellie Stevens holly with gardening expert Katherine Rowe.
Roses bring history and charm to the garden, and many grow for decades with long lifespans in favored locations. Explore rose selections to become long-lasting hallmarks of the garden with gardening expert Katherine Rowe.
Climbing roses and their large, shrubby counterparts bring lush beauty and vertical interest to the garden. They soften structures, brighten corners, and envelop seating areas. They immerse us in color and fragrance. And many of them grow so vigorously that we’ll quickly reap their rewards. Gardening expert Katherine Rowe explores fast-growing rose selections to fill your garden spaces in short order.