Style Dispatch From The Garden: Hot, Hot, Hot (And Humid) If you think it's hot and humid, so do your plants. Here's how to help them through the heat wave. By Madaline Sparks
Fields of blubonnets in Texas hill country. Style Garden: Bluebonnets And Lupines, With Love We may not be able to grow bluebonnets in the Northeast, but there are many lupines that can thrive in our climate. By Madaline Sparks
Style Spring Garden Tips (Tip #1: Don't Rush It) By Madaline Sparks Spring is definitely not busting out all over! Two weeks ago, when it hit 73º, and the air held that promise of the season to come, I did spot daffodil and daylily shoots that were up about two inches, so that proves it is coming… eventually. This By Editor
Style Fall Garden: Outside In Tropical plants on the deck waiting to be prepared to come inside. By Madaline Sparks It’s October and my panic is setting in. Going from temperatures in the 80s and 90s one week to the 40s at night a few days later has kickstarted my annual anxiety about overwintering By Editor
Style August In The Garden: How To Extend The Beauty By Madaline Sparks It’s hard to believe we’re in the last weeks of summer already. How can that be? Summer doesn’t officially end until September 22, though we generally think of Labor Day weekend as the end. I always feel a little anxious about now because the By Editor
Style Lenox Garden Club's 2017 Tour Spotlights Great Barrington Photo by Lisa Vollmer By Amy Krzanik You often hear the phrase “This year’s event will be the best one yet!” and think to yourself, “Well, they have to say that, so people will go.” But this year’s Lenox Garden Club tour of five rarely seen Great Barrington By Editor
Style Spencertown Academy Arts Center Celebrates Artful Landscapes By Madaline Sparks A few weeks ago, I wrote a column for RI called “ My Top 10 Reasons to Go on a Garden Tour." Well, here’s your chance to test them out at the 13th Annual Hidden Gardens Tour, benefitting the Spencertown Academy Arts Center. Full disclosure: I& By Editor
Style My Top Ten Reasons To Go On A Garden Tour Columbines naturalized on a rock outcropping at Major General Ashley House. By Madaline Sparks As a professional gardener, I love to go on garden tours! The experience is always educating and inspiring. I recently attended the Trade Secrets Garden Tour. Four spectacular locations were open for viewing in Cornwall and By Editor
Style Trade Secrets: A Conversation With Bunny Williams By Madaline Sparks I managed to snag a moment with the incredibly busy interior designer Bunny Williams for a quick phone conversation between her road trips. She was just back from Highpoint, NC and leaving to give a lecture in Dallas. I wanted to chat about the upcoming 17th Annual By Editor
Style Garden Center and Nursery Round Up: Columbia and Dutchess By Madaline Sparks Though spring officially arrived in March, clearly Mother Nature didn’t get the message! Snow is still melting and temps are many degrees below what is supposed to be typical by now. That said, it will come and we need to be ready to hit the ground By Editor
Style Garden: Hydrangea Love The Rural Intelligence region is fortunate to have so many gardening experts close by. Our garden writer, Madaline Sparks, is the principal in her own design, installation and maintenance business, Madaline Sparks Garden Design, with clients in Columbia and Berkshire counties. For 12 years she was the contributing garden editor By Editor
