I HAVE GREAT RESPECT for what you learn in horticultural schools. I am very grateful for all that was taught to me in the Student Horticulturist Program at the New York Botanical Garden.
Still, with the knowledge you get at such an institution, you also tend to absorb, and later take for granted, the attitudes of your teachers. So I'll admit to a prejudice about gardening: I am most interested in the practices of self-taught gardeners. Sometimes, lacking the standard answers that are given in school, autodidacts come up with novel and imaginative solutions. For example, there is Benjamin Vogt.
Benjamin is a poet and a former university professor who became fascinated with gardening as a way to connect with nature in the suburb outside of Lincoln, Neb., where he and his family live. In 2007, he and his wife purchased their current home, which was set on a patch of lawn identical to all the other yards up and down the street. Benjamin, however, turned 2,000 square feet of that turf into a tapestry of native prairie plants.
Despite pushback from neighbors hostile to his "weeds," he persisted, and the distinctive, all-season beauty of his yard attracted a growing fan base. His admirers kept asking Benjamin for advice and help, and in 2015 he launched Monarch Gardens LLC, a "prairie-inspired design firm" to share what he had learned.
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WEEDING OUT WORRY
Two books give perspectives on gardening's importance to mental health
Prized Perennials
GAPS IN THE GARDEN? TRY ONE OF THESE AWARD-WINNING PLANTS AS A SAFE-BET FIX
A TOAST TO CORK
A trip to Portugal inspired Greg Coppa to peel back the botany of the cork oak
THE GARDEN CENTER'S GRIP
SOMETHING WEIRD HAPPENS when gardeners enter a garden center. We change. Suddenly, somehow, we're overcome with this vague yet powerful, transcendental feeling of liberation, and we become aware of money we probably have and hopefully won't otherwise need.
OUTSIDE OF THE BOX
AS BOXWOOD BLIGHT DAMAGES THIS STAPLE EVERGREEN, IT'S TIME TO LOOK AT WORTHY ALTERNATIVES
NEW MOUNDING ANNUALS
Also known as summer snapdragons, angelonias produce spikes of outward-facing flowers throughout the hottest, most humid time of the year.
AN ANNUAL AFFAIR
Combine a designer's best advice with the year's new varieties for a summer's worth of showstopping containers
A Big Role for SMALL GRASSES
The unexpected benefits of small native grasses
GOLDENSEAL
A woodland herb worth guarding
RICHARD HAWKE
Try and try again