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The Berkshire Botanical Garden’s Herb Associates began in 1957 when three women who loved and grew herbs — Gertrude Burdsall, Emily Rose, and Amy Bess-Miller — decided to make and sell herbal products to benefit the Garden.

Berkshire Botanical Garden’s 2024 Art/Garden series continues with “Re-Rooted,” an exhibition featuring the drawings of Brooklyn-based artist Ellen Driscoll, who takes her inspiration from the resilience and regenerative power of plants.

Do you have a crocus protection plan? Why start tomato seeds indoors now? What are you going to do about spores? Who doesn't like walking on eggshells? Ron Kujawski shares this week's tips and tricks.

plants growing in dirt/Stephen Weeks on Unsplash

Soil testing and "balanced" fertilizers: are you poisoning your soil?

Berkshire Botanical Garden presents the art exhibition “BBG Creativity Unleashed,” from March 29 through April 12, in our Leonhardt Galleries.

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Peter Rabbit had it coming? Not so fast...

Honey bees aren't the only things awakening. Busy gardeners are all abuzz. Here's your To-Do list — and your Don't-Do list — for the week.

field of corn stalks

As a horticulturist, I was taught to be a plant connoisseur. Joseph Lofthouse of Paradise, Utah, recently changed the way I think about my Sandisfield garden.

 

Ron Kujawski says that all those forced hardy bulbs still have life in them yet — and so do all those survivors of the holidays. Also it's seed-starting time. It's deer tick time, too. And why is repotting houseplants like changing your engine oil?

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Ron Kujawski

There's lots to do both indoors and out this week! Succession planting, grow tunnels, and other tips and tricks for your seeds and plants!

Scenes from the opening celebration of "Wild Findings" on Friday, March 1, at Berkshire Botanical Garden.

A collection of paintings, drawings, photographs, and collages inspired by nature, created by artists with disabilities is on display in our Leonhardt Galleries through March 24. 

It's pruning time! Plan to take in a flower show. Build a cold frame. Examine your houseplants. Ron Kujawski gives this week's tips and tricks.

snow-covered daffodil

Thomas Christopher advises us to stop grumbling about snow and embrace its usefulness in the garden!

It's crop-starting time! Herbs, too! Also, pay mind to broken branches. Make plans for a butterfly garden. Let's talk repellents, deer and potted miniature roses.

What can a pinch of sulfur do? What can you do with those plastic milk containers? How can you make drooping heads undroop? Can amaryllis have a second life? What else has as much garlic flavor as garlic cloves? What can WD-40 do for you? Ron Kujawski shares his gardening tips for this week.

Onions growing in dirt/Martin Van Den Heuvel/Unsplash

Nature, even in our back yard plots, is so ingeniously constructed. The more we know, the greater the beauty of our gardens. Read Thomas Christopher's latest. 

Herbs in pots — right now? Think about it. Ron Kujawski also turns our thoughts to zinnias, garden tools, flowering woody plants, mist sprayers, and fungus gnats. Read his latest column.

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