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Enfield Shaker Museum and Garden
National Gardening Association — The Enfield Shakers sold herbs, seeds, and world-renowned preparations made from cultivated and wild herbs New Hampshire's long summer days, cool nights, and beautiful scenery draw many vacationers. But garden lovers, history buffs, and those who ...More…
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Libraries and their cataloges
National Gardening Association — It is impossible to generalize about New York City's millions of inhabitants. It is just as impossible to generalize about its gardeners. Here -- if not literally side by side, then metaphorically, at least -- you have community gardeners ...More…
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Eastern Native Seed Conservancy
National Gardening Association — One of the signature characteristics of heirloom plants is their regionality. Many varieties were developed in specific areas of the world, where over time they proved to be very well adapted. Organizations such as Seed Savers Exchange and Native ...More…
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A Chef's Garden
National Gardening Association — If you're traveling in the West and have a chance to swing through Phoenix, Arizona, there's a place you should stop in and see--especially if you're a gardener with a taste for the unusual. It just happens to be located at one of the ...More…
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Selby Gardens
National Gardening Association — Blooming orchids fill gift shop benches January through March. In Sarasota, Florida, about an hour and a half south of Tampa, lies a rare jewel for people who love tropical plants. The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens rests on a spit of land jutting ...More…
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Bringing the garden to life
National Gardening Association — Shaped by constant pruning over decades, an elephant and giraffe welcome visitors to Green Animals Topiary Garden. Perched at the edge of Narragansett Bay and just 10 miles north of Newport, Rhode Island, lies a slip of land that is home to the ...More…
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Garden Guru: Lynden B. Miller
National Gardening Association — Artist and gardener Lynden B. Miller had been a landscape painter for 18 years and was ready for a break from her studio when in 1982 a friend asked for her help on a daunting new project: restoring New York's Central Park. Lynden's task was to .. ...More…
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Preserving Desert Crops
National Gardening Association — Native Seeds/SEARCH is a nonprofit group devoted to finding, collecting and disseminating seeds of traditional southwestern crops. Order seeds and products from them by mail, or visit their gift shop and test garden: Several items make unique ...More…
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Elvis Lives!
National Gardening Association — When Elvis sang (in "All Shook Up") "I'm itching like a man on a fuzzy tree," could he have had in mind one of the trees at Graceland? We'll never know, but you could grow an offspring of one of his estate's trees -- pin ...More…
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Garden Guru: Holly Shimizu
National Gardening Association — Her passion for plants and nature started at a young age in her grandfather's Rhode Island garden, "harvesting vegetables and devouring parsley." Like many high school seniors, she didn't know what she wanted to do. Then her mother ...More…
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The Huntington
National Gardening Association — Huntington's renowned rose garden blooms from Easter to Christmas. Henry Edwards Huntington purchased James DeBarth Shorb's San Marino ranch in 1903, flush with enthusiasm for the climate and the economic future of southern California. By age 53, ...More…
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Highlights for bird-watchers
National Gardening Association — A Harris hawk stars with trainer Sue Tiegielski at the raptor demonstration. Southern Arizona is a popular winter destination for many good reasons, mild temperatures and golf among them. But the area is also a naturalist's paradise. Perhaps ...More…