Garden Gate
3 SMALL-SPACE GARDENS
Here are three 14x14-foot patio plans, each with its own distinct flavor, because a small space doesn't have to limit your style.
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Issue 185 - Winter 2025
Garden Gate
Reader Tips - GREAT IDEAS FROM SMART GARDENERS
JoAnne found a simple way to keep delicate stems from flopping over: She cuts the bottom off a clear disposable plastic cup, then makes a slit up the side and slips it around the plant's stem. It's a great way to provide a house plant, newly planted perennial or new cutting extra support as it grows.
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Issue 185 - Winter 2025
Garden Gate
Winter Happy Hour for the Birds
At daybreak, there are hundreds of robins above the sidewalks: robins coming to town, leaving town, staying, and all of them are eating hackberry fruit. Gobbling, gorging on hackberries.
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Issue 185 - Winter 2025
Garden Gate
WHICH shade ANNUAL IS RIGHT FOR YOU?
THIS or THAT: IMPATIENS VS. BROWALLIA
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Issue 185 - Winter 2025
Garden Gate
Epimedium
This tough shade perennial provides year-round, deer-resistant beauty where few others thrive.
7 min |
Issue 185 - Winter 2025
Garden Gate
ANATOMY OF A WINTER PORCH POT
FAST GARDEN FACTS
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Issue 185 - Winter 2025
Garden Gate
Lettuce Might Be Magical
I find it fascinating that each vegetable has its own unique way of growing. For example, as baby eggplants grow, it seems impossible that the rather spindly plant can support the weight of multiple eggplants. But Mother Nature somehow allows it to work even though it basically defies the laws of gravity.
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Issue 185 - Winter 2025
Garden Gate
Light Up the Shade
This is the plant for you if you're looking for something unusual for your shade garden. Carolina pink is native to the southeastern United States, but it is becoming increasingly rare in the wild. Luckily, it's starting to take off as a garden plant, and a striking one at that.
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Issue 185 - Winter 2025
Garden Gate
WEED WATCH
What it looks like Growing 2 to 5 feet tall, this perennial has a stiff, upright appearance and the square stems common in members of the mint family.
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Issue 185 - Winter 2025
Horticulture
Always in Season
A multifaceted shrub like oakleaf hydrangea deserves a prime position. This one brings new interest to the front garden each season.
5 min |
Winter 2025
Horticulture
from Shed to Studio
A PREFAB BUILDING BECOMES A DREAM WORKSPACE IN THE GARDEN
6 min |
Winter 2025
Horticulture
RESILIENT Roses
Heritage varieties flourish at Philadelphia's historic Wyck garden
5 min |
Winter 2025
Horticulture
ANDREW BUNTING
Helping build a better city through public horticulture
7 min |
Winter 2025
Horticulture
Top Tomatoes, Perfect Peppers
How to make 2026 your best year for these favorite crops
6 min |
Winter 2025
Horticulture
HOW TO GARDEN SMART
“WORK SMARTER, NOT HARDER.” No doubt you’ve heard this before, usually from some consultant sent down by Corporate. Sounds great, but a week later, what? Your boss is telling you to stop thinking so much and work harder!
2 min |
Winter 2025
Garden Gate
SHARED WISDOM
My “stone age” began in my childhood, when my dad would take our family on hikes to the creek behind our house.
7 min |
Issue 185 - Winter 2025
Garden Gate
2026's Best New Plants!
While it's a bit soon to start planting, this time of year is great for dreaming and making plans for the upcoming season.
10 min |
Issue 185 - Winter 2025
Garden Gate
Pretty Permaculture
After some home construction, Joseph and Shalyn Donofro’s zone 5 backyard was left with low-quality, compacted soil and not much of anything else. They envision a beautiful space that supports their young family’s healthy lifestyle goals, teaches responsibility to their children and enables them to spend quality time outdoors together. They want the cottage garden aesthetic, as well as the benefits of basic permaculture practices, which encourage sustainability and enrich the well-being of both the garden and the gardeners.
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Issue 185 - Winter 2025
Garden Gate
The Giving Garden
This award-winning garden is rooted in personal connections.
8 min |
Issue 185 - Winter 2025
Horticulture
RAIN, HAIL & SNOW NETWORK
In this collaborative, volunteers measure and help map precipitation
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Winter 2025
Horticulture
A GLIMPSE AT THE FUTURE
How quantum computers may help us recognize and build more perfect ecologies
4 min |
Winter 2025
Horticulture
ALL-AMERICA SELECTIONS
Meet the 2025 class of ornamental AAS winners
8 min |
Winter 2025
Horticulture
Cutting Gardens
You don't need a sprawling estate to grow your own bouquets
4 min |
Winter 2025
Horticulture
A YEAR-END REVIEW
Looking back at some highs, lows and lessons learned in the 2025 gardening season
6 min |
Winter 2025
Los Angeles Times
SUV hits L.A. ambulance; 5 hurt
At least five people were taken to a hospital Sunday night after a car collided with an ambulance that was transporting an elderly patient in the San Fernando Valley.
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December 02, 2025
Los Angeles Times
A terrifying roar from under the floor and bear's jig is up
Kenneth Johnson first noticed signs of an uninvited guest living under his Altadena home earlier this year.
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December 02, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Bedecked halls at White House show first lady’s touch
First Lady Melania Trump on Monday unveiled the holiday decorations for her family’s first Christmas back at the White House and her theme is “Home Is Where the Heart Is.”
3 min |
December 02, 2025
Los Angeles Times
No LeBron? Again, no worries
Doncic (34 points) and Reaves (33) lead surging Lakers past the Pelicans
3 min |
December 02, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Local planning afoot for the upcoming World Cup
For organizers of the 2026 World Cup, Friday's tournament draw is alike the bell lap of a long-distance race, the moment when the slow slog turns into a sprint.
3 min |
December 02, 2025
Los Angeles Times
U.S. peace talk focus shifts to Moscow this week
Diplomats face an uphill battle to reconcile Russian and Ukrainian “red lines” as a renewed U.S.-led push to end the war gathers steam, with Ukrainian officials attending talks in the U.S. over the weekend and Washington officials expected in Moscow early this week.
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