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Great Garden Quotes

Great Garden Quotes

Yep, that’s what Pat Stone says about it. (Hey, that’s me! Let’s switch to writing in the first person, shall we—uh, I?) How can I make the claim above? First,  
Great Garden Quotes

Great Garden Quotes

I’ll admit it: I’m not always the sharpest colored pencil in the box. I mean, in the last year, the publishing world has been flooded with adult coloring books. They  
Dad’s White Rose

Dad’s White Rose

Dad flower gardened with enthusiasm and curiosity. It didn’t matter if plants were pass-alongs, came from purchased seed, or were just happy accidents—he enjoyed them all. Dad’s color blindness made  
Nature Heals

Nature Heals

I’ll bet you’re going to go home now and have a glass of wine." That’s what I said to my friend Deb after we toured my slightly chaotic prairie gardens.  
Growing Up with GreenPrints, Part V

Growing Up with GreenPrints, Part V

As part of our 25th anniversary year, I’ve run stories from each of our four offspring about growing up with a magazine business in the house. For the very last  
The Flower Man of Sing Sing

The Flower Man of Sing Sing

In the 1920s, many newspapers and magazines featured glowing accounts of a man who transformed a desolate, barren, and depressing site into one of the country’s most fabulous gardens.  
Growing Up with GREENPRINTS, Part IV

Growing Up with GREENPRINTS, Part IV

As part of our special 25th anniversary year, each issue in 2015 will contain a piece by one of our four offspring about “Growing Up with GreenPrints.” So far, we’ve  
“Heed!”

“Heed!”

Long-time readers of GREENPRINTS know that I am constantly looking for good garden books. I love to share excerpts from them to give you appetizing tastes of what’s new.  
Growing Up with GREENPRINTS, Part III

Growing Up with GREENPRINTS, Part III

As part of our special 25th anniversary year, each issue in 2015 will contain a piece by one of our four offspring about “Growing Up with GreenPrints.” So far, we’ve  
Growing Up with GREENPRINTS, Part II

Growing Up with GREENPRINTS, Part II

Just try answering this stumper: “What does your dad do?” “Um…well, he kinda…he works from home…and he publishes this magazine…no, you probably haven’t heard of it…it’s all garden stories…No, not