Danielle Sherry
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Design
The Best Perennials for 2024
No matter how large or small a garden is, there’s nothing like a few new plants to make the gardener’s heart sing. We’ve looked over the introductions for 2024 and…
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Design
The Best Trees and Shrubs for 2024
No matter how large or small a garden is, there’s nothing like a few new plants to make the gardener’s heart sing. We’ve looked over the introductions for 2024 and…
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Design
The Best Edibles for 2024
No matter how large or small a garden is, there’s nothing like a few new plants to make the gardener’s heart sing. We’ve looked over the introductions for 2024 and…
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Design
Peonies vs. Tomatoes—Discuss | Letter from the Editor
Folks often say that tomatoes are the gateway plants to becoming a gardener. The idea is that people get truly hooked on this hobby of ours once they grow something…
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Design
Excuse Me—Do You Have a Tree for Me? | Letter from the Editor
If you’re a gardener—and since you picked up this magazine I’m guessing you are—you probably get peppered with plant questions all the time. I know I do. Take Thanksgiving just…
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Kitchen Gardening
New Veggie Varieties to Try This Year
For what seems like 8 million years, I have grown ‘Tomatoberry’. It’s a small cherry tomato variety that is not rare or superflashy, but it works well for me, so…
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Design
An Appreciation for Plants That Protect Themselves | Letter from the Editor
Plants with leaves as sharp as razor blades. Plants that smell like rotten meat. Plants that will cause severe gastrointestinal problems if ingested. These all sound like great garden additions,…
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Design
Take a Video Tour of a Rooftop Pollinator Garden
Take a tour through a magical pollinator garden located atop a multistory apartment building in the middle of Chicago. Featured in Fine Gardening #213, this garden is an oasis within…
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Design
Reaching New Gardening Heights | Letter from the Editor
“Can bees even fly that high?” This was a comment made by one of our editors during a planning session for this issue of Fine Gardening. She was referring to…
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How-To
Pruning Conundrums | Letter from the Editor
Well, it turns out that I’ve been pruning my hydrangeas wrong this whole time. Not my bigleafs (Hydrangea macrophylla)—I have only a couple of those left in my beds, since…