Grasses in Your Garden by Sharon Smith Since early recorded history grasses have fed the world through crops such as corn, wheat, rice and oats, while hay, corn and sorghum feed livestock. So it is a much more recent trend of using grasses in your gardens. Why did this happen you might ask? Gardeners realized that grasses were not just…
Book Review by Josephine Norton – “A Northern Gardeners Guide to Native Plants and Pollinators” by Lorraine Johnson and Sheila Colla. Illustrated by Ann Sanderson. Island Press 2023. At first glance I thought this book would include the Canadian zone 5 but it is an American published book so deals only with the native plants from the northeastern states. However,…