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Radicle Thinking: Going for 100
Read more: Radicle Thinking: Going for 100How long can we live? Can we try to live extra-long by learning from the extra old? Old people, old communities, old trees? There are a large number of studies out now about commonalities for longevity—healthy food, healthy lifestyle, healthy attitude . . .
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Manitoga: An American Treasure
Read more: Manitoga: An American Treasure“I am more interested in nature than any other subject,” says Russel Wright, the influential mid-century industrial designer, who believed that good design was for everyone and created the best-selling dinnerware line in U.S. history. He channeled his passion for nature into Manitoga . . .
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Wear Weirdness on Your Sleeve
Read more: Wear Weirdness on Your SleeveOn a recent Friday afternoon, I arrived at Chanticleer Garden feeling weighed down by a sense of bleakness about the world. Although I’d vowed to read the news for only ten minutes, even that left me with a heaviness I couldn’t shake. Two hours later, after hearing Chanticleer horticulturist Tim Erdmann speak of how art…
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Protecting our Beaches with the Naples Botanical Garden
Read more: Protecting our Beaches with the Naples Botanical GardenI love the beach. I’ve spent at least part of every summer since I was born on the same small barrier island off the southern tip of New Jersey—swimming, looking at tidepools, rejoicing when I spy a piping plover patter by the water’s edge, and generally breathing easier. It’s my happy place and I’d like…
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PRFCT Moment: Edwina’s Bee Beach
Read more: PRFCT Moment: Edwina’s Bee BeachBees need pesticide-free flowers for nectar. They need safe places to rest and to nest. For some that is open stems in which to lay their brood for the coming year, for others it is mud—little potters building their homes.
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8 Tips from Leslie Needham on Designing Gardens that ‘Blur the Edges’
Read more: 8 Tips from Leslie Needham on Designing Gardens that ‘Blur the Edges’“A garden needs a heartbeat,” said Leslie Needham, founder of her eponymous design firm in Bedford, NY. And Needham will be the first to admit that her former English-style garden—tightly clipped hedges, filled with plants originating from around the world—didn’t have quite one. “It was pretty stagnant,” she says.
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PRFCT Moment: Leaving Stems at The Battery
Read more: PRFCT Moment: Leaving Stems at The Battery“Here’s a picture demonstrating our practice of leaving stems for cavity nesting native bees. We recommend home gardeners start cutting back in mid-April (at the earliest), leaving stems, like we’ve done here with Bluestar (Amsonia hubrichtii), at a minimum of 18-inches tall. Bee babies are sleeping in them!
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Ask the Expert: Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Rashid Poulson
Read more: Ask the Expert: Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Rashid PoulsonRashid Poulson probably wouldn’t be where he is today if he hadn’t gotten bored at work. The horticultural director of the Brooklyn Bridge Park (BBP), one of the city’s most exciting new parks and our newest Pathways to PRFCT Partner, had zero interest in gardening when he was studying engineering in college. . . .