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No, this is not yet another article on Coronavirus/COVID-19. I figure you have heard and read enough on the topic that you decided to go...

I have a thing for radishes. Some vegetable growers have a thing for tomatoes, and when I say they have a “thing,” I mean they...

Warming weather inspires many minds to the vegetable garden. This week, Wellfield staff direct sowed the first vegetable crops of 2020:...

As we celebrate the Ides of March, the madness of March, Einstein and my brother’s birthdays (happy birthday, bro!), this main street...

Early spring brings with it the possibility of high winds, and even tornadoes, as Nashville experienced this past week. In my last blog...

First, before I get rolling with this week’s blog from the Gardener on Main Street, I would like to offer a rarefied Happy Leap Day to...

All the sun we’ve had recently has me chomping at the bit here on Main street, ready to get the hip, non-hipster gardening season off the...

If you were wondering what Wellfield’s horticulture staff has been doing this fine, cold winter week (and I am sure you were not), we’ve...

Gardeners often spend January and February pouring over seed catalogues dreaming, always dreaming. They turn the pages, suddenly halting...

Most people who know me know I am not the strong, SILENT type, but this week, your hip, non-hipsta’ main street gardener is in a...

Akemashite omedetô gozaimasu! Happy New Year to gardeners everywhere. In 2020, Wellfield Botanic Gardens is celebrating the opening of...

“Oh gardener, my gardener, I came to a fork in a garden path and I took the one less compacted”. Thus begins absolutely no poem I have...

There are days, as the executive director of a local not-for-profit, that I find myself overwhelmed by the outpouring of support we...

A coworker recently stopped by my desk wondering what to do with the painfully persistent mushrooms popping up in their lawn after a...

The large amount of snow we received earlier in the season prompts a reminder blog post from yours truly: your hip, non-hipsta’ gardener....

My parents had a beautiful tri-colored Japanese maple they kept in a pot on their deck for many years, but because of where they lived,...

Up until this week, the cold November nights foreshadowed the wintery cold coming soon to a landscape near you. This week’s foot of...

The last few nights brought some hard frosts to Wellfield, accelerating the process of leaf senescence in the herbaceous layer. Hostas,...

Every fall, I keep a close eye on forecasted night temperatures, especially as we approach our area’s average first frost date around...

I hate to be a downer in these dastardly droughty days , but I am predicting a not so fabulous fall color season this year. Brace...