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A miniature cactus garden? Outdoor lights do's and don'ts? Poinsettias pointers? House plant pests? Best bets on Christmas trees? Tick, tick, boom?

Berkshire Botanical Garden is marking the culmination of its 90th anniversary year with a significant step toward sustainability.

Loading excessive amounts of food on my plate has been replaced by my tendency to obtain more plants than I can find ready space for. In the future when eyeing plants that you must “absolutely have”, squint.

“Schizophrenic” is the best description of the weather in New England and the rest of the Northeast for the last six months. Conditions have varied regionally, but overall summer started with record heat and in many areas above-average rainfall deposited in deluges.

Let's talk amaryllis bulbs, potted herbs, next season's seeds, the colors of ornamental gourds, and why Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.

Have you finished planting your bulbs? Mowing and fertilizing your lawn? Plus, checking your veggies for winter storage.

Shrubs and repellants, cracks and trees, edges and lawns, soil and samples — and other reasons to get off the La-Z-Boy. Ron Kujawski shares this week's gardening tips.

It troubles me deeply to hear about the massive wave of extinctions that scientists predict is coming if we don’t address the current human assault on our natural environment.

Celebrating Farm to School month, Berkshire Botanical Garden educators have continued our partnerships with five schools this fall.

With all the weather uncertainty, let's turn our attention to the indoors. Here are Ron Kujawski's tips and tricks for this week. 

Frosted grass? Thirsty trees? Trunk-chewing rodents? Cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower that should stay put? Ron Kujawski would like a few words with you.

Poking those garlic cloves into the spot reserved for them is a more leisurely business, one that is carried out amid the cooler weather and gentler sunlight that makes autumn my favorite season in the Northeast. It’s a pleasurable horticultural encore.

When I asked Karen Bussolini of White Flower Farm what advice she would give to gardeners who wanted to cultivate natives and non-natives together, she replied “Go for it.”

Have you considered sweetgum? Can you leave potatoes in the ground? What to do with perennial herbs, pumpkins and winter squash? How to reduce pest and disease problems of fruit trees? Should you mulch your roses for winter?

Efforts this week turned to readying the garden beds for the coming of frosts and winter. Liz Leonard, coordinator for the Herb Display Garden, favors a combination of “cutting back, potting up and leaving be.”