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Gardenwise: Seeing In The Garden

Pictured Above: A path through Rick Darke’s garden. | Rick Darke photo There’s an old gardening adage that you should

Pictured Above: A scene from Rick Darke’s garden, part of the book “The Living Landscape,” co-authored with backyard habitat guru

Pictured Above: A Canadian owlet caterpillar. Are you overwhelmed by the problems facing the planet and unsure where to start

Pictured Above: Spring Gardening School Keynote Speaker Doug Tallamy | Rob Cardillo photo Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County’s annual

“I don’t know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth

Pictured above: Starting tomatoes indoors. It’s a shame to see that so few people are taking advantage of the fully

Pictured Above: Yes, the bark of Japanese maple ‘Sango kaku’ is really that deep coral color By Susan Tito As

Above: prepare for spring by cooking up new color schemes with the help of Gertrude Jekyll’s “Colour Schemes for the

Pictured Above: A closeup of variegated Japanese aucuba. Its colorful leaves look like they have been sprayed with gold-colored paint,

Pictured Above: This photo of Japanese forest grass is pretty enough to grace the front of a holiday card. |

by Susan Tito Strategically placed near my front door, my culinary herbs have served me well all summer long, seasoning