Dig It! Garden Blog

After putting the garden to bed, we might find we have a bit more free time on our hands. If, like us, you can’t get enough of the garden, even during the off-season, then maybe…

I sat down with design and bulb expert (both in the Gardens Aglow sense AND in the popping-up-from-the ground sense) Brent McHale, CMBG Horticulturist and Gardens Aglow Program Manager, who loves interesting shapes and color…

I sat down with our Adult Education Program Manager and horticulturist extraordinaire, Irene Barber, to pick up some of her sure-fire fall clean-up tips for the home garden. Her top tier advice? Keep the fall…

Plants are just endlessly giving. From food to medicine, clothing to building materials, it’s a rabbit hole we’re happy to dive into. Today we talk plant dyes. Here are Horticulturist Jen Dunlap’s top five, some…

12th Annual Ina and Lewis Heafitz Endowed Lecture: Centering Indigenous Peoples and Nations in Land Protection and Conservation with Dr. Darren Ranco In this lecture, Dr. Darren Ranco explores the opportunities for Wabanaki-led conservation in…

With the summer winding down and temperatures beginning their annual slide toward fall, migratory birds are also starting to head back to their southern homes, so this is a great time to get out into…

If you were disappointed because you thought gardening season was over, well, I have good news for you, my friends—especially if you’ve been wondering how you could do more to encourage native plants in your…

Here at the Gardens, we have some pretty amazing tools that we’re excited to launch. The first, IrisBG, is a collections-management database that allows us to keep records of every planting in our living collections….