I am an absolute sucker for old-style plant catalogs. Sure, vendors offer greater variety online, and I always order that way, but there is something irresistible about all of those vibrant flowers, fruits and vegetables. They demand your full attention and all but leap off the pages, making it clear that their ultimate intention is … Read more
Over the centuries, humans have had a complex relationship with members of the tobacco—Nicotiana—family. We have praised them, vilified them, smoked some species, distilled others into insecticides and burned still others in various rituals. One thing is clear. When it comes to ornamental or flowering tobacco, there is much to praise and almost nothing to … Read more
NIGHT FLYERS You may have been too distracted by heat waves, summer chores or garden watering to notice, but National Moth Week is upon us. The celebration, a New Jersey-based initiative, takes place this year from July twentieth through twenty-eighth and aims to raise awareness of moths and the role they play in biodiversity. … Read more
