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This month is filled with memories, no matter how you observe the holiday season. For me, Christmas meant spending a week in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin at my grandmotherās home, where my Dad was born and grew up in a small house on N. 63rd St. Food was the main feature: Grandma was a stunning cook in […]
Celosias were first introduced from the Far East in the Sixteenth century before there were more than a handful of greenhouses so were not easy. Once the heated greenhouse became available then this relation of Amaranthus became immensely popular with over sixty species discovered and introduced from Africa, Asia and the Americas. Then they generally […]
THE GREENHOUSE IN 2025 Greenhouse Partitions The use of partitions in Greenhouses is becoming increasingly popular as gardeners look for more precise control over their growing environment and formally divide structures for additional lifestyle uses. By dividing Greenhouses into distinct zones, partitions allow for tailored microclimates that cater to the specific needs of different plants […]
Oddly enough, in my neck of the woods, the dead of winter is one of the busiest times in my garden year. Sheltering in my ersatz greenhouse aka sunroom, when the snow is lying heavy on the ground (19 inches heavy, and even heavier further south, while I wonāt mention Wyoming), I have all the […]
One of the best benefits of a greenhouse is bringing bulbs to bloom at the time when you most need themādĆ©cor, a celebration, or just for cheer in the darkest winter days. This month Iām talking with Brent Heath, the eponymous head of the family-owned mail order business, Brent and Beckyās. After an amazing number […]
At Hartley Botanic, we believe that growing edibles from heritage seeds is one of the biggest trends amongst Greenhouse owners this year. Interest in heritage, edible varieties, some of which can be traced back to as early as the 1600ās, has been largely driven by the rediscovery of their unbeatable flavours. Often tender crops, requiring […]
Itās bulb season. This will be a two-part column about how to enjoy growing bulbs inside a glasshouse. Most of this advice will also be useful for growing on a sunny windowsill. Next month I will talk about forcing other tender and hardy bulbs indoors. But this month, Iām talking about Amaryllis with Christian Curless, […]
Unlike the costly high-tech carbon capture and storage strategies being proposed to mitigate climate change, tree-planting is free, simple, people-powered ā and proven. Iāve beaten the redwings to it. The crowd has skirted along the edge of the wood and descended on my neighbourās rowans, where theyāre now merrily stripping them of their dazzling orange […]
āIf you can read a book, you can do anything.ā Short of embroidering it on a cushion, thatās a mantra Iāve lived by since my best friend in high school wised me up. Iāve packed in a lot of reading since then, researching the history of garden design and landscaping for the books Iāve written, […]
A year or so ago, a friend was throwing out a dozen ten-foot-long, one inch-diameter, galvanized pipes. I said I would take them with the thought in mind of building an affordable hoop house. Having filled my 300-square-foot heated greenhouse with more than 200 plants, and with more plants than I intended in my unheated […]
Winter is knocking on the door once again and thereās lots to do in the garden in preparation. The trouble is you can never predict what winter will bring and I would like every gardener to be provided with their own personal crystal ball ā particularly now that our climateās so changeable. What will the […]
Whether you want to plant for wildlife or deter burglars, the humble bramble has many attributes I have a long and chequered history with the humble blackberry. As a child I lived on a crescent of houses and in the middle of the crescent was an allotment site, where we had a plot. We didnāt […]
