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

Fertilizer Basics


Disarming Spring's Ticking Time Bomb Weeds


Late Season Native Garden for Wildlife


Hardy Pricklypear


Nurturing Regional Native Trees

Magazine Articles, Past, Present and Future

10 Full-Length articles in Wilder Quarterly

Decorating with Winter Gourds, The Green Scene Magazine

Edible Seeds, The Green Scene Magazine

For the Love of Dahlias, The American Gardener Magazine

Best In Show! (New Bedding Annuals with Old-Fashioned Appeal), The Old House Journal

The Cicadas are Coming, The American Gardener



Favorite Ornamental  Vendors

Annie's Annuals

Beaver Creek Greenhouses

Forest Farm

Fairweather Gardens

Odyssey Bulbs

Select Seeds

Favorite Gardening Sites & Blogs

Finegardening.com

Learn2grow.com

Mo Plants

The Dinner Garden

You Grow Girl

The Garlic Press

YourGardenShow.com

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



Pretty Winter Things


If this warm weather keeps up, Leucojum vernum will be popping up in no time.


Bright white stars hover above scented roses in the Longwood rose house


Recent Blogs

Best Weeding Tools for All Ages

Winter Pine Cone Crafting


Excellent Gingerbread

Yams and Sweet Potatoes, Differences and Recipes

The 1000-year old Dog Rose at St. Mary's, Hildesheim, Germany



Garden Book Review: Dirr's Encyclopedia of Trees & Shrubs

Lovely Late-Season Monarda Hybrids

Cultural Step-By-Step: Kohlrabi 'Kolibri'

Wilder Quarterly, a New Garden Writing Adventure


A Culinary Week Knee Deep in Zucchini

Leaf Power!

Seed Starting

Grow Garlic Grow


Favorite Vegetable Seed Vendors

Baker's Creek Heirloom Seeds

Fedco Seeds
(Cheap & Good!)

Franchi Sementi Italian Seeds

Johnny's Selected Seeds

Pinetree Garden Seeds
(Cheap & Good!)

Renee's Garden

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).

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