Good Seasons
Lynette L. Walther is the recipient of the National Garden Bureau's Exemplary Journalism Award and the Florida Magazine Association’s Silver Award of Writing Excellence. She is a member of the Garden Writers Association, and she gardens in Camden.
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Following the 2021 garden trends
By Lynette L. Walther - Jan 07Last spring, a lot of gardeners were disappointed when their seed choices sold out too soon. That's because a growing number of folks are turning ...
Dealing with ice and snow bent trees and branches
By Lynette L. Walther - Dec 10Winter is coming. You know it is. The long-range forecast for this winter is warmer and wetter weather. While there will be snow, that forecast ...
Home-grown beauty products
By Lynette L. Walther - Nov 12Our harvests are in, many stored for the weeks and months ahead — canned, frozen, dried and for some, root-cellared. If you've dried some flowers ...
The last hurrah — brilliant colors of fall
By Lynette L. Walther - Oct 15The turning of the leaves is a botanical process of trees and shrubs getting ready for the coming season of cold. As daylight time shortens, ...
Let that fall garden cleanup slide a bit
By Lynette L. Walther - Sep 17Beauty can be in the eye of the beholder. Take for instance, your yard and gardens. At this time of year, many of us are busy cutting back ...
Let the season’s harvest roll!
By Lynette L. Walther - Aug 19So, this is it. This is what we've been planning for, planting for, working for and dreaming of for months, maybe for an entire year — harvest ...
The 'fruit' of summer — watermelon
By Lynette L. Walther - Jul 22Not really a fruit, but rather a melon as its name implies, watermelons are the very essence of summer wrapped up into one big ball of cool ...
Primer on growing the perfect tomato: Part I
By Lynette L. Walther - Jun 24Hands down, tomatoes are one of the most popular choices for home vegetable gardens. I grew up in the shadow of my Grandmother Reba's award-winning...
Garden hacks for growing edibles
By Lynette Walther - May 26Without a doubt, these few weeks of late spring contain some of the busiest days our gardens see all year. Cleaning up the debris that winter left ...
Pruning hydrangeas now for maximum blooms in summer
By Lynette Walther - Apr 30If there's one good thing we can do while staying at home and social distancing — its gardening. Anticipation of billowing mounds of hydrangea ...
Biggest trend in gardening for 2021: Gardening
By Lynette L. Walther - Dec 23That headline says it all. Of the top gardening trends for the coming year — gardening itself heads the list. Imagine that! Those of us who have ...
Consider the cranberry — the all-American berry
By Lynette L. Walther - Nov 26While a lot of folks see the turkey as the star of the Thanksgiving dinner, in my mind it is the cranberry. Yes, both are species native to this ...
The houseplants are safe and sound inside, or are they?
By Lynette L. Walther - Oct 29Let the cold winds blow. Now that we've moved our houseplants safely inside from their summer “bootcamp” outside, we can relax. Not so fast. Your ...
It's the year of the iris, and it's time to divide
By Lynette L. Walther - Oct 01Novelist and garden observer, John Updike, apparently was no fan of bearded iris. In his novel “Rabbit Run,” his main character, Rabbit, waxed ...
Cravings for summer’s subtle vegetable
By Lynette L. Walther - Sep 03Most folks could not imagine a summer vegetable garden without tomatoes; indeed, tomatoes are considered the top in popular items to grow at home. ...
What the well-dressed gardener is wearing — a critical review
By Lynette L. Walther - Aug 06We all have our favorite pair of shoes, pants, etc., for working in the garden. As it so happens most of mine have tended to hover in the chromatic...
The perfect tomato: Part II
By Lynette L. Walther - Jul 09This week we return to one of the most popular choices for home vegetable gardens — tomatoes, how to grow them successfully and increase the ...
Dandelions: The politics of the weed we hate to love
By Lynette L. Walther - Jun 11Dandelions have been getting some really great press of late. Any political candidate should take notice of the sugarcoating this common weed ...
Time to bring back a grand American tradition
By Lynette Walther - May 14She never called it a “victory garden.” But my greatest gardening inspiration, my Grandmother Reba Miley, grew one all her life. Even though she ...
Gardening that’s for the kids
By Lynette Walther - Apr 08Go easy on that dish soap, go easy on the butter…I find myself admonishing my husband as I monitor our food and household supplies, and vow not to ...
