A Spirea for Every Landscape 

For 2023, the National Garden Bureau’s shrub of the year is Spirea, which unfortunately often gets overlooked during the spring buying-rush as old-fashioned and uninteresting. In reality, spireas are tough, easy-to-grow shrubs and a workhorse in modern landscapes.   Spireas offer a wide range of colorful foliage ranging from blue to yellow, red to orange,... Continue Reading →

The Year of Broccoli 

Broccoli hails from the Mediterranean region and has been enjoyed there since Roman times. Other European regions eventually caught on and broccoli was popularized in France as “Italian Asparagus” in about 1650. The English adopted it about 70 years later.  We have been broccoli fans across the US since the 1920s when ice-packed broccoli heads... Continue Reading →

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