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Be A Better Gardener: Voles

Sure, voles are cute. With their small pudgy bodies and short tails, they look like undersized, feral hamsters. But an abundance of voles in your garden can spell trouble for your plants.

Ron Kujawski shares his tips and tricks for what to do this week in your garden.

Gardeners Checklist: Here Is What to Do on the Week of Dec. 6.

Insects, mites and pests? Crust and crud? This week, Ron shares his best tips for caring for indoor houseplants. Plus, watch out for dangerous plants this holiday season!

Ron Kujawski shares gardening-related tips on what you could be doing this week.

Gardeners Checklist: Here's What to Do on the Week of Nov. 27

Protect your fruit trees from field mice. Consider another sort of Christmas bulb. Your indoor herbs require your attention. Thoughts on self-reliance. Ron Kujawski shares this week's tips and tricks.

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Be A Better Gardener: What About Winterberry?

Its dark green, elliptical leaves turn yellow in the fall and drop from the twigs, which only enhances the display of its innumerable colorful berries, which can turn the shrubs into a blaze of scarlet.

Ron Kujawski shares his tips and tricks for what to do this week in your garden.

Gardeners Checklist: Here's What to Do on the Week of Nov. 20

Windscreens in front of evergreens? What should you do with your asparagus plants? Are you worrying about your darlings in storage? What's your cacti maintenance plan? Ron Kujawski addresses these things — and "dim bulbs," too — in his latest column.

Gardeners Checklist: Here Is What To Do the Week of Nov. 13

Bye bye birdbaths (and flamingos!) How do you plant a live Christmas tree? And why is my Christmas cactus blooming on Thanksgiving? Ron Kujawski shares this week's tips and tricks.

Be A Better Gardener: Tribute to A Gardening Pioneer

When conventional gardening became unsustainable, David Salman was a plantsman, educator and pioneer of what came to be known as “waterwise gardening.”

Gardeners Checklist: Here Is What To Do the Week of Nov. 6

Mulch around acid-loving shrubs? What to do with heavy clay soils? Why dig a trench now? What should you be jotting down? Ron Kujawski shares this week's tips and tricks.

Be A Better Gardener: More on PawPaws

An alert reader sent me a message after the publication of my recent article about pawpaws. OK, so what about those compounds neurotoxic compunds?

 

Gardeners Checklist: Here Is What To Do the Week of Nov. 1

Though I won’t make any predictions about winter, I will make preparations for winter. Here they are.

Be A Better Gardener: Pawpaws

What’s remarkable about pawpaws, is that even though they are members of a tropical plant family, they are natives of eastern North America, growing wild as far north as southern Ontario and as far west as southeastern Nebraska and eastern Texas.

Gardeners Checklist: Here Is What To Do the Week of Oct. 23

Deer ticks, high nitrogen organic wastes, yellowed tops, flowering bulbs, stakes, plant labels, leaves, acorns, cones, dried seed heads, and de-hydration. So much to discuss! Ron Kujawski shares this week's tips and tricks.

Berkshire Botanical Garden Announces Arborist Day at Norman Rockwell Museum

For over 18 years arborists from around the Berkshire community come together to provide a day of professional service to care for a host location’s trees.

Herbs of the Season – Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme

The Herb Associates are a group to be remembered for their decades of work and their courage to carry on tending the beautiful herb gardens, thereby supporting the Berkshire Botanical Garden through the work of our hearts and hands.

Gardeners Checklist: Here is What To Do the Week of October 16

Showing off your composting, taking care of your plants over the winter and pumpkin tricks and tips. Beware the hard frost!

Gardeners Checklist: Here is What to Do the Week of October 9

Garden hose maintenance, preparing raspberry beds for spring planting, tips for enjoying fresh chives year-round, and Q&A about raking leaves.

Harvest Festival 2023: Thank You, Everyone!

Thank you to all of our visitors, volunteers and vendors for a super special Harvest Festival this past weekend.

Allen Timmons (Mr. Scarecrow) at the Harvest Festival.

"The Most Priceless Thing": Mister Scarecrow Says Farewell

Allen Timmons, the kindly, blue-eyed man with an Alabama accent whose sweet-filled syllables stretch like taffy, has a message to share with his many friends here at Berkshire Botanical Garden, particularly the children who attend the annual Harvest Festival.

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