The Generous Garden
Margaret TomlinsonYour garden, large or small, can give you generous rewards in beauty, food and pleasure. It also helps to slow climate change and restore healthy populations of birds and pollinators. Create a garden that will help you and the planet flourish together!
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 136 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 7 days ago |
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Fringed Loosestrife
A year ago in May (May 25, 2025, to be exact), I took a walk with a friend in the Ramshorn-Livingston Nature Preserve, an Audubon Sanctuary in my hometown of Catskill, New York. Among all the good advice I was eagerly absorbing in the books...
Resilience
Last week in a single 24-hour period, six inches of rain fell in Catskill, New York, where I live and garden. It started raining after dark, kept raining through the night, and unleashed a heavy downpour all the next morning. Our basement w...
Black-eyed Susans
Black-eyed Susans and their relatives put on one of the brightest and longest lasting summer displays of any native plant in North America. They will self-seed, expanding the show year after year. Sun-loving, unfussy about soil, and and are...
Looking Forward to Fruit
We have several William’s Pride apple trees, most of which are in too much shade to produce apples, but the two in the sun are producing well this year. It’s foolish to expect backyard apple trees to produce unblemished apples. Ours are poc...
Plant Spacing
Advice on how far apart to space plants is easy to find. Whether to follow it is another question. Typically, the advice is to add up the mature width of each neighboring plant, divide by two, and plant them with their centers that far apar...
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Margaret Tomlinson is a reader, writer and enthusiastic gardener. She is in the process of transferring her reviews of historical novels to Substack from the HistoricalNovels.info website, which will be discontinued later this year.
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