Gardens

Editors, gardeners, and readers share the tiny kernels of history they’re planning to plant

Fall is the best time to plan and plant ahead for next year’s centerpieces

Substitute the blight-prone Southern favorite with these evergreen surrogates

Six lessons of well-being from the book The Well-Gardened Mind

Southerners know pollinators are a garden’s best friends

How a Chattanooga couple styled a garden for the senses

For help planting a paradise at home, go where the wild things grow

Experts weigh in on the best you-can’t-kill-’em plants for your garden

Digging in the dirt is a Southerner’s longstanding duty

How the slow-blooming flower finally turned the head of Leo McGee

An inside look at the Washington, D.C., home of the General Foods titan and socialite

Protecting a courtyard from an unsightly intruder

A master gardener’s favorite, the walking onion—zingy, hardy, and self-planting— is ripe for revival

The world’s only commercial ramp farmer seeks a successor

The Georgian works to perpetuate the South’s heirloom crops

This propagator of the Cherokee Purple preserves and protects the South’s favored summertime crop

Thanks to Thomas Jefferson’s keen nose, fragrant blooms endure for today’s green thumbs

Containers of herbs and veggies, inspired by one of England’s most famous gardens, yield abundant flavor

An expert’s beautiful new book celebrates flowers of all kinds, but right now, it’s daffodil time

A guide to mail-order sources for beautiful house plants