Bonnie Kirn Donahue
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Fall Guide: Sunflowers take the spotlight this season
Fall is a great time to observe sunflower plantings in your community, to enjoy their beauty and think about how you might like to grow them next season.
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How can rain gardens help with stormwater? Ask a master gardener
Water plays a significant role in the health of our landscapes in more ways than meets the eye.Stormwater is water that collects on the surface during and after…
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Phlox can liven up your property
Phlox is a highly versatile perennial with powerful blooms that can extend through much of the season. From spring-flowering, low-growing creeping phlox (Phlox subulata), to its taller, summer…
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Ask a Master Gardener: What is succession planting?
Do you ever plant your vegetable garden in the spring, and wish that you had more space to plant other crops? With careful succession planting, you can plant…
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Ask a master gardener: Why veggie gardens need flowers
This season, consider incorporating flowers into your vegetable garden.Flowers can transform vegetable gardens from places of production to places of pleasure. While vegetables have a lovely variety of…
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Ask A Master Gardener: The fantastic Chanticleer Gardens
Just outside of Philadelphia is a magical garden estate in Wayne, Penn., known as Chanticleer. Built in the early 1900s, the estate’s 35 acres of rolling land and…
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Ask a master gardener: Using summer-dried herbs and flowers
Do you have herbs and flowers that you dried or preserved last summer still sitting in your cupboard or freezer? If so, now is a great time to…
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Gardening: Plant bulbs now for spring blooms
Do your future self a favor, and plant spring-blooming bulbs this fall. Depending on where you live, there can be a month or more after the snow recedes…
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Gardening: Tips for harvesting pumpkins and squash
Fall brings many great things that come in beautiful shades of orange, yellow, red and brown. Pumpkins and winter squash are among the most wonderful of these. Fall’s…
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Gardening: How to rehab a perennial garden
As I look out at my perennial garden this time of year, it looks…tired. The Rudbeckia fulgida (Black-eyed Susan) is at its prime, but just about everything else…