Thrift is among the reasons, as nurseries typically drop their prices at this time of year. Also, trees and shrubs you plant now will be ahead of the game next spring.

It's the right time to divide and move them, and it's not too hard.

But there's an exception to every rule: Several types of shrubs and certain pruning jobs are suitable for fall.

Your garden can remain awash with color into the fall with this list of late-blooming flowers.

Tomatoes can be fussy to grow to Maine. But there are a few ways to increase your chance of success.

Some plants are far more resistant to salt water than others.

As their season draws to a close, it's time to evaluate if yours need dividing.

Appalled at the sorry state of the garden, a Portland socialite organized the club in 1924. It has maintained the garden at the historic Wadsworth-Longfellow House ever since.

Let us count the ways: It's gorgeous, productive, easy to prune, and it has an interesting backstory.

After a disappointing season last year, the flowers are blooming splendidly in 2024 and the harvest is early.

At a picturesque walnut press in France, the oil is still made the traditional way, and its flavor can't be beat.

The answer lies in genetics and a dogged quest for immunity from blight.

Columnist Tom Atwell has learned the hard way to pay more attention to his tomato plants. Last year, he got just two slicer tomatoes. (The wet weather was no help.)

Tom and Nancy Atwell practice a style of landscape design they call 'design with shovel.' '

Columnist Tom Atwell is moving garden pathways this summer to make room for more garden and less lawn.

Although it's already mid-June, you can still plant both vegetables and flowers. 'Truth is planting time is anytime you find a plant – or maybe even a seed – that you want to plant.'

If you're in the second camp, these tips may nudge you toward the first.

Plant once, but harvest for years. More food, less effort.

We lack the data to answer the question. But urban gardens and farms have educational and cultural value.

The late Currier McEwen of Harpswell hybridized dozens of Siberian irises. A collection of his irises will go on display at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens.

Herbs, lilies and lilacs are among the options.

Non-native plants and patches of grass can have a place at your home, no matter what the internet trolls say.

Tomatoes, potatoes and peppers are among them.

There are 3 basic types: sugar snaps, snow peas and shelling peas. Fresh from the garden, all peas are peerless (though garden asparagus gives them a run for their money).

Things will be different in the Atwell's vegetable garden this year. Among other things, the couple is eager for bell peppers that get enough sun to actually ripen.

Anybody who wanders by is free to pluck fruit from the trees and shrubs at Mt. Joy Orchard in the city's Munjoy Hill neighborhood.

As our Maine Gardener column turns 20, writer Tom Atwell reflects on how gardening has changed.

The process takes some time but is straightforward.

Submit an application for one of three $1,500 scholarships for students and teachers seeking to learn more about organic and sustainable farm systems.