Maroushek gardens are contained within a single block of Hastings, Minnesota, just off Highway 61 in the back of the Dairy Queen. Lillian Maroushek has dug up every square inch…

So far this has been a rather odd and also slightly depressing winter. Weeks of gray weather punctuated by brutal bursts of bone-numbing glacial air that even puts the squirrels…

We all have our own gardening style. Some people are quite content to putter in the garden. Absently plucking long shoots of crabgrass out of the petunia bed, they can…

Looking Good What the well-dressed gardener should wear. Fashion is a concern of mine, and I hope through this column to hear your suggestions as to appropriate dress in the…

Britain has only a narrow range of native flora (the Ice Age left it quite barren). --The Atlantic Monthly, March 1966 Few gardening topics generate as much passion and misinformation…