Cultivating Garden Style with Rochelle Greayer

What are those special ingredients that elevate a garden into a stylish and unforgettable space? What’s the best way to unleash your garden personality, and how can you create an outdoor place that’s uniquely your own? Just in time for another… [Continue Reading]

Cultivating Garden Style with Rochelle Greayer Cultivating Garden Style with Rochelle Greayer

Fenway Farms Scores Home Run for Red Sox

“Take me out to the ball game. Take me out with the crowd.” But forget about buying me “some peanuts and Cracker Jack,” as the 1908 Tin Pan Alley song by Jack Norworth and Albert von Tilzer recommends. I would much rather tour the new 5,000… [Continue Reading]

Fenway Farms Scores Home Run for Red Sox Fenway Farms Scores Home Run for Red Sox

Creating a Cottage Garden

A proper cottage garden, explains Oxford Dictionary, is defined as "an informal garden stocked typically with colourful flowering plants." And that's the type of garden I've created at my home (Zone 6B/7), as you can see above. From self-seeding poppies… [Continue Reading]

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Five Reasons Why Kids Should Garden

One of my favorite childhood memories was running around the garden until dinner time, chasing after lightning bugs and catching tadpoles. Sadly, too many kids spend most of their summer time indoors, playing on video games or watching TV. This lack… [Continue Reading]

Five Reasons Why Kids Should Garden Five Reasons Why Kids Should Garden

Spring Equinox Facts

March 20, 2010
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Looking Back: Spring began officially in the Northern Hemisphere with the spring equinox today. From this point forward, the days will grow longer than the nights until the summer solstice on June 21.

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Seed Advice, Heirloom Seeds, Plant Lists

March 16, 2010

Purple carrots, blue corn, spotted lettuce and rose pink beans. These are just some of the unusual and delicious vegetables you can grow from seeds in your garden. Nest in Style Podcast: Eager to learn more about seed starting? Have questions about heirlooms and hybrids? Or, just want more professional garden design tips? Don’t miss this Nest in Style […]

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Crop Rotation and Vegetable Plant Families

March 15, 2010

  For healthy vegetable gardens, it’s best to rotate your crops each year. By rotating your vegetable crops each year, you’ll reduce pests and pathogens and add nutrients to the soil. That’s why you should avoid growing vegetables from the same family in the same place more than once over a three-year period. It’s not always easy to remember which vegetables […]

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A Tour of Naples Botanical Garden

March 10, 2010

Driving up to the Naples Botanical Garden in the seaside town of Naples, Florida, you can’t help but notice the bromeliads. They are everywhere in shocking oranges, yellows, reds and greens, scattered among the snow-white stone mulch. Even on a cloudy, surprisingly chilly day in February, the contemporary design cheered the mood of our small group.

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Congrats to GG Winner – Plus, Fresh Food Tips From Readers

February 17, 2010

We’re pleased to announce that Lara Zelman of Massachusetts has won a free, autographed copy of Grocery Gardening. Congratulations, Lara! A warm thanks to all who participated in this random drawing. I loved reading everyone’s favorite ways to eat fruits, vegetables and herbs. Although I know it wasn’t easy to pick just one… As Lara […]

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Win Free Copy of Grocery Gardening!

February 4, 2010

Drumroll, please… Just in time for spring garden planning, Grocery Gardening is now on the shelves at Barnes and Noble, Home Depot and Lowe’s. It’s packed with tips for planting, preparing and preserving 25 of your favorite fruit, vegetables and herbs. Eat local. Grocery Gardening guides you from planting the first seeds to preparing delicious meals to preserving produce for winter months. […]

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Sensational Succulents for Containers

January 20, 2010

It’s hard to imagine a more carefree container plant than succulents. These plants need little water and little attention. But they deliver big in the design department, with sculptural shapes and unexpected color combinations that lend excitement to any decor.  Their flowers – which typically come in winter or spring – are just an added bonus.

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Honest Scrap Award (Or, A Bit About Me)

January 12, 2010

If you’ve been following Seasonal Wisdom, you’ve probably noticed my stories tend to focus on other people. The fact is I’d rather write about other folks and their traditions than myself. But this post is different. That’s because Helen Yoest of Gardening with Confidence and Dan Eskelson of Clearwater Landscapes tagged me for the Honest Scrap Award. They’re such […]

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Make a Toast to Wassail

January 4, 2010
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Spices often used for wassail, including allspice, nutmeg, cloves and cinnamon. Image by Pod Chef at Flickr.com If there’s a drink that deserves a toast this holiday season – and all winter, really – it’s wassail. This steaming spiced concoction is often made with roasted apples; sugary spices; dark ale, wine, sherry or port; along with […]

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Strange Facts about New Year’s Day

December 30, 2009
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Happy New Year! Or, is it? The fact is it depends on who you ask and when…In much of the world, it took quite a while before Jan. 1 was actually considered the start of the year.

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