Gardening
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Ask a Master Gardener: Summer gardening tips
Here’s how to keep your flowers, fruits and vegetables healthy this season.
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Take time to visit pollinator gardens
June 20, 2025, with over 15 hours of daylight, is the official start of summer and a peak of abundance. With other ways you may have to celebrate…
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Ask a Master Gardener: Vermont’s state flower
Introduced to Vermont by European settlers, red clover has become an essential part of the state’s landscape and identity.
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Middlebury Co-op transforms its garden space
What’s going on in front of the Middlebury Natural Foods Co-Op this month? It looks as though plants have been pulled up and carted away. Is the outdoor…
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Ask a Master Gardener: For the love of lilacs
Easily recognized by their sweet fragrance and cone-shaped clusters of tiny flowers, the common lilac (Syringa vulgaris) has been a part of America’s gardens for much of our…
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Home & Garden: Why change my beautiful lawn?
Gently sloping and smooth green landscape can be gorgeous. And flat, well-mown lawns are great for romping on, kicking a ball, picnicking on. And a neat lawn bespeaks…
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Home & Garden: Rain gardens are practical and pretty
You may have heard talk about rain gardens. Intuitively we can guess what they are: an area that has plants like a garden and collects rain. But what…
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Ask a Master Gardener: Why you should plant dogwoods
Dogwoods, in the genus Cornus, are among the most versatile native shrubs. With seasonal interest, tolerance of less than perfect conditions and benefits for wildlife, these shrubs are…
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Ask a Master Gardener: All about bleeding hearts
Have you ever heard of the lady in the bath flower? That’s just one of the common names for bleeding hearts (Lamprocapnos spectabilis, formerly Dicentra spectabilis). If you’re…
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Ask a Master Gardener: A rose isn’t just a rose
We’re all familiar with roses (Rosa) — their fragrance, their flowers, their thorns. If you’re thinking about adding a rose (or roses) to your garden this year, it…