Local Gardener Archives

Lookalike butterflies: Monarchs and viceroys

Doesn’t mean you have to disparage viceroy butterflies, though, the butterflies that look an awful lot like monarchs except for

By Dorothy Dobbie Technically and botanically, peas are a fruit, because their seeds are developed from the ovary of the

By Shauna Dobbie They are delicious and nutritious, being full of anthocyanins (which are good for you). They’re also native

By Shauna Dobbie When I was a young child, I was allowed to pick pansies and tulips sometimes, crocuses never,

By Shauna Dobbie I bet you wish you could actually dissect all the Canada thistles out there and trash them.

If you want to have monarchs in your garden, plant nectar-rich flowers. Make sure your choices bloom in fall to

By Dorothy Dobbie They look blue. You’d swear they are blue, a very striking, and intense blue kind of blue.

By Shauna Dobbie My grandmother had a big bleeding heart in her garden, next to her front door. As a

Hartley Botanic is one of England’s oldest and most respected greenhouse manufacturers, with an increasingly large following in the US

Shauna and Dorothy talk to Stephanie Rose about her new book, The Regenerative Garden. The book beautifully covers 80 projects