Turn a Glass Top Table Into a Wood Top Like Magic!

If you too are facing the problem of your Basil Leaves Turning Black or Brown, then you are at the right post! Here are all the details on why it happens and how to keep this herb plant thriving.

He visited my public-radio show and podcast to talk shrubs: what’s new, what’s coming next, and what’s going out of favor and why. There’s a tension between what we gardeners need to make great season-long gardens, and the fact that we mostly shop only in spring—meaning we mostly buy things that look good then.We covered why he’s excited about plants like a beautyberry with flashy foliage, not just fruit (to help satisfy the “looks good in spring” thing); new barberries that don’t seed and become invasive; a dream of better viburnums that resist the leaf beetle; new native Hydrangea arborescens varieties in different colors of flowers (like ‘Incrediball Blush,’ above; an Aronia that covers the ground, and lots more.Read along as you listen to the April 15, 2019 edition of my public-radio

“How rude of you,” the iridescent birds chattered, swooping madly overhead, then dive-bombing. “We are trying to mate here. Give a bird a little privacy.”“I have my mission, too,” I explained, one aimed at furthering the desired native plant species—little bluestem grass and asters and goldenrods, mostly. Around early May, I use the tractor’s mowing deck to behe

Westwood (below, right, in the lab) directs the Global Tree Conservation Program at the arboretum, which strives to save threatened trees from extinction through collaborations with botanical gardens and universities, and others in China, Europe, and Mexico, as well as throughout the U.S. She has a particular interest in oaks—including a number of American species in trouble—which we also talked about.Read along as you listen to the Nov. 6, 2017 edition of my public-radio show and podcast using the player below. You can subscribe to all future editions on iTunes or Stitcher (and browse my archive of podcasts here).emerald ash borer and threatened oaks,with morton’s dr. murphy westwoodQ. Before we get started on trees in trouble, I believe I read that in 2015, the Morton Arboretum had its first millionth annual visitor tally. Is that correct?A. That’s rig

Glassberg is President of the North American Butterfly Association, and an adjunct professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Rice University.Plus: Comment in the box at the bottom of the page to enter to win a copy of the updated butterfly guide, to learn to identify butterflies like the two variable checkerspots at the top of the page.Read along as you listen to the May 7, 2018 edition of my public-radio show and podcast using the player below. You can subscribe to all future editions on iTunes or Stitc

“Nature Into Art: The Gardens of Wave Hill” lets us feast on the design daring, the color plays, the garden pictures captured in its extravagant photography by Ngoc Minh Ngo, but at the same time it tells us how they were accomplished, teaching us the tenets of the Wave Hill way of gardening that we can put into practice at home.Tom Christopher, a graduate of New York Botanical Garden School of Professional Horticulture and longtime garden writer and friend, wrote the new book, and along the way even Tom, with all his prior training, enjoyed a sort of insider’s advanced course in garden making and maintaining. He shared some of

If you’re looking for the answer to “Why Are My Calla Lily Leaves Turning Yellow,” you’ve come to the right place. Let us explore the possible reasons behind yellowing Calla Lily leaves and effective solutions for getting them healthy and green again.

This past weekend I was able to do a little hocus pocus and turned an old, dilapidated iron bench and table thingy into a pretty magical chair and ottoman. This set was generously given to me by a good friend. (Thank you, Kirk!)

I’ve been collecting bottle tops all summer with the intention of making something. Here’s that something.

If you are worried about Gardenia Buds Turning Brown and Falling Off, then don’t worry. We have listed out the major problems with their solutions!

Find an old chandelier in your nearby thrift store. Make sure that the design of the chandelier is such that it can hold feeding cups.

Have you ever seen a piece of a fallen tree and thought, «Hmmm… DIY log fairy house?! Maybe it's just me but I love the fun and magic of fairies!