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Hildebrandt’s Encephalartos grows at the Lyman Conservatory on the Smith College campus.

Turn to greenhouses for year-round bloom

by Mickey Rathbun For the RecorderFebruary 5, 2019

Conical yews shield Auguste Rodin’s iconic sculpture The Thinker, with Les Invalides church as a backdrop.

Discovering the plant world’s limitless joys in Paris

by Mickey Rathbun For the RecorderJanuary 29, 2019

Lilian R. Jackman, who owns and runs Wilder Hill Gardens in Conway, says, “Lately I’ve been making mosaics of wild and weird gardens.”

Conway garden professional shares insight on winter garden projects

by Mickey Rathbun For the RecorderJanuary 18, 2019

Narcissus bulbs offer color and fragrance. To keep them from flopping over, you can “pickle” them, a trick developed by a horticulture professor at Cornell University named William B. Miller.

Get Growing: Forcing bulbs for indoor color

by Mickey Rathbun For the RecorderDecember 11, 2018

An illustration of fennel.

Herbs that heal; Smith College exhibit reveals secret of ancient garden medicine

by Mickey Rathbun For The RecorderApril 12, 2017