For reasons of science and thrift, adding new shrubs and plants to your garden now is a smart move.
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Maine Gardener: What will Maine’s forests look like in 100 years?
Biologist Amanda Devine says we’ve already lost the battle to many aggressive invasives, which she described as the second-largest threat to global biodiversity. (The largest threat? Human disruptions.)
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Maine Gardener: Maxims for creating your green space
Make it durable, doable – and have fun.
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Maine Gardener: Some tomato talk for tomato season
If you don’t know the indigo cherry, you are in for a happy surprise. They’re bountiful, easy to grow and mighty nice to eat, too.
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Maine Gardener: Strategic weeding can help make it a manageable, even mediative, chore
Keeping weeds from going to seed and always having a trowel on hand are starters.
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Maine Gardener: The thing about gardening? There are always surprises
This week it was the berries on the potato plants. You read that right: potato berries.
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Maine Gardener: Tips for clematis care from an expert
Cindy Tibbetts, of Hummingbird Farm, has expanded the varieties of clematis vines she sells and propagates.
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Maine Gardener’s garden update: The worries, the glories, the berries
Columnist Tom Atwell tells us how his garden grows.
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Maine Gardener: The state finalizes its list of invasive plants that can no longer be sold in Maine
Rosa Rugosa, a beach rose beloved by many in Maine, is in a category of its own.
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Maine Gardener: A ray of hope for getting rid of the destructive emerald ash borer
A group of UMaine students and their professor are on the job, combining an array of tactics to try to eliminate the invasive pest, which could decimate Maine’s ash trees.