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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That itch to grow something good
By Lynette Walther - Mar 18Leap years do tend to mix things up a bit. Take spring for example. Fun fact: In a leap year, vernal equinox will be approximately 18 hours ...
Fruits and spices and everything nice
By Lynette Walther - Feb 20As winter wears on, adventurous travelers can dream of warm and welcoming tropical getaways filled with exotic delicacies. But before you grab ...
Rx for environmental leadership
By Lynette Walther - Jan 23As gardeners, we recognize the responsibility we shoulder when it comes to the environment. All too often home gardens and landscapes have come to ...
What’s new and what’s growing next
By Lynette Walther - Dec 21Time to turn the page on our gardens, and look to a new year of choices and opportunities. Seed catalogs are already arriving with decisions to be ...
Giving thanks — for trees
By Lynette Walther - Nov 28Most families have Thanksgiving traditions. When I was growing up, Thanksgiving meant getting up before dawn, donning my warmest outfit, including ...
Pumpkins forever
By Lynette Walther - Oct 29The annual ritual pumpkin massacre has begun. Pumpkins have become synonymous with fall and Halloween, and in this country that tradition has its ...
Go for color, go for iris
By Lynette L. Walther - Oct 04Aptly named after Iris, the Greek goddess of the rainbow and messenger of the gods, the flowers display every color of that multicolored arc in ...
Oh those smokin’ hot bushes
By Lynette L. Walther - Sep 06Last winter's cold did a number on the smoke bushes. Last spring we noticed that many were frozen plumb back down to the ground. But just to prove ...
The enduring charms of bee balm
By Lynette L. Walther - Aug 09My, how things change. Seems a bit hard to believe now, but it wasn't that long ago folks created their gardens around plants that did not attract ...
The blueberry — a berry to celebrate
By Lynette L. Walther - Jul 12Ah, the little blueberry — so small in size, but with such a big presence. Blueberries pack a huge nutritional punch. Blueberries are low in fat ...
Rev up the process: Gardeners, start your seeds...
By Lynette Walther - Mar 04In the race to beat the season and get a crop of something ready to hit the ground running, savvy gardeners are thinking of -- if not already -- ...
A little philosophy on why we garden
By Lynette Walther - Feb 05On the surface, the question of what drives mankind to create and nurture gardens is a simple one. However, if the only reason was to plant, tend ...
It is time for a quiet revolution
By Lynette Walther - Dec 31For many, the New Year signals the time to start another diet or a vigorous exercise regimen. Those holiday calories can add up. But I'd like to ...
Deck the halls...naturally!
By Lynette Walther - Dec 12Christmas is less than a couple weeks away, and whether you are on a budget or not, holiday decorations don't have to cost a fortune when you ...
Growing food indoors
By Lynette Walther - Nov 11Oh, the joys of summer — the vegetable garden, the fruit trees and berry bushes. But we know quite well what William Shakespeare said in Sonnet ...
Best landscape trees (and shrubs) for fall color
By Lynette Walther - Oct 16Fall — time for the invasion of the “purple-haired leaf peepers,” is what our friend the Major used to call the seasonal arrival of tour buses ...
Polecats and those little holes in the lawn
By Lynette L. Walther - Sep 20It started up a few weeks ago, those telltale cone-shaped holes in the lawn. Skunks! We don't have to track the life cycles of grub-producing ...
Ligularias — the divas of the shade
By Lynette L. Walther - Aug 23All it takes is a couple of really hot days to make us view our shade gardens in a whole new light, appreciate them, too. For most folks, a shade ...
Hydrangeas not blooming? Here’s help
By Lynette L. Walther - Jul 26One of the most spectacular floral shows of every summer are the bigleaf hydrangeas. These hardy blooming shrubs almost never fail to amaze us ...
Let’s see a show of hand tools
By Lynette L. Walther - Jun 28Call it carbon-neutral, low-tech or even old school — hand tools may be yesterday's technology, but they are certainly today's choice for most ...
