Want to know what's missing in your life?  Flowers!  If you joined the January Cure at the start of the year, perhaps you remember what fun it was to buy your weekly flowers.   I'll admit I haven't kept it up, but when I came across these aerial shots of flower farms, it inspired me to get back in the habit of Friday flowers.  

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Despite Boston's abundant amount of green space, there are very few local shopping options for urban gardeners. Lindsey Swett, a lifelong green thumb, got tired of making trips to the 'burbs for supplies, so she started Niche for people like herself, no Zipcar necessary.

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I have been writing a book since the new year, and I am finding it quite distracting. Normally my garden would have been in the ground for over a month now, but at the moment I barely have half of it planted. Trying to be practical — I don't need too many veggies forcing me to have to can this year — I am opting instead for flowers.  My daughter wants to sell them at the Farmers Market later this summer. 

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There is simply no garden show greater than Chelsea. The Chelsea Flower Show takes place annually on the grounds of the Royal Hospital in London, and it features the finest garden designers, builders, and products in the garden industry.  If you are looking for inspiration, there's no better place to find it. 

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Gardening is one of my favorite hobbies, but it can also be expensive when you start buying lots of plants and pots. What if you could double, triple, even quadruple the number of plants you currently have without spending a dime?  If you have a little bit of time on your hands, along with a lot of patience, you can do just that.  Let's dig into cacti and succulent propagation!

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Geraniums are easily the easiest patio plant to grow. They also look great in flower beds and window boxes. There is absolutely no reason not overuse these beloved garden plants.  

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When a friend told me he was considering planting two trees to celebrate the birth of his friends' new baby twins, I must admit I swooned. Birth-trees! Such a sweet idea, but there are a few things to consider...

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Ever year I make a point of finding a couple of interesting plants, shrubs, or trees to incorporate into my garden. I look forward to shopping around and choosing the plant, and I also look froward to the following gardening season and seeing how my new baby is establishing itself in its new environment.  By choosing just a few plants, I have time to study up on the history and care for each plant, making me a more knowledgable gardener in the long run. Cyperus Papyrus is one that I took home this spring. More

Joining a community-supported agriculture (CSA) program is a great way to get regular fresh vegetables from a local source. And as fresh vegetables are good at maintaining a body’s health, fresh flowers are practically essential to making a home feel all healthy and energized, which is why the idea of a CSA for flowers is just so darn brilliant. 

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I read this morning on one of my favorite garden blogs (Black Walnut Dispatch) that it was once a very common thing for gardeners to avoid the color magenta because people associated it with poison —  arsenic was once commonly used in pesticides, giving crops that had been dusted with it a magenta color. 

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