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Jessie Keith
Horticulturist
,
Garden Writer
,
Photographer
,
Kitchen Gardener
,
Botanist
,
Mother
,
Traveler
I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult.
-Liberty Hyde Bailey
Recent Online Articles
Season the Patio with Designer Herbs
A Guide to 18 Common Edible Flowers
Five Great Landscape Lilacs
Hot Summer Vegetables that Beat the Heat
New Annuals for Old House Gardens
Perfect Homegrown Plants from Seed
Great Figs for Gardeners
Plant Life Cycles: Annuals, Perennials, Biennials
Nurturing Regional Native Trees
Magazine Articles, Past, Present and Future
Slow Flowers,
Green Scene (Sept.-Oct. 2012)
Dinner Plate Dahlias,
Green Scene (Sept.-Oct. 2012)
Fall Canning Joy,
Green Scene (Sept. 2012)
Diverse, Delightful Dahlias
, The American Gardener (July/August 2012)
10 Full-Length articles in Wilder Quarterly (Fall Issue, 2011)
Best In Show! (New Bedding Annuals with Old-Fashioned Appeal), The Old House Journa
l
The Cicadas are Coming
,
The American Gardener
Favorite Gardening Sites & Blogs
The National Gardening Association
Finegardening.com
Learn2grow.com
Mo Plants
The Dinner Garden
YourGardenShow.com
Favorite Ornamental Vendors
Annie's Annuals
Beaver Creek Greenhouses
Forest Farm
Fairweather Gardens
Odyssey Bulbs
Select Seeds
Garden Photo of the Month
Recent Blogs
Miniature Daffodils
What's the Hybrid Hullabaloo?
The Millennium Seed Bank: Saving the World's Seeds
Cultural Step-By-Step: Tomatoes
Thank You Proven Winners
2012 Vegetable Successes (
in
the Summer from Hell)
Rose Rosette Disease (RRD)
Book Review: The 50-Mile Bouquet
Donate Last Year's Garden Seeds
Best Books for Budding Beekeepers
Cultural Step-By-Step: Kohlrabi 'Kolibri'
Best Weeding Tools for All Ages
Seed Starting
Gardeners Feeding the Hungry
Help Feed the Hungry through Gardening! Support organizations like
Plant a Row for the Hungry,
The Dinner Garden
,
The Giving Garden
and local community gardens that support area food banks. Volunteers and donations are always needed. The
Delaware Center for Horticulture's Urban Farm
is my favorite local philanthropic garden to support.
Ann Mattingly preparing to plant vegetable seeds for The Delaware Center for Horticulture's Urban Garden (image care of DCH).
Invasive Species Alerts and Info
Emerald Ash Borer Info
Asian Longhorn Beetle Info
USDA Invasive Species Emerging Issues
National Agricultural Pest Information System Pest Tracker
Invasive and Exotic Species of North America