Pollinator Super Plants-Critical Components for Healthy Pollinators

This article is the first in a 3-part newsletter series about pollinator gardening. The series is dedicated to the work of a New Jersey Garden Club member, Jeannie Geremia. For years I have watched her tireless efforts to educate us all about protecting and nourishing pollinators. There are a number of dedicated, inspired pollinator crusaders in this country whose work…

5 Heirloom Hot Peppers That Flourish in Containers

5 Heirloom Hot Peppers That Flourish in Containers   Columbus named the peppers he saw growing in the West Indies, pimiento, because he thought they were the pimienta, spice pepper, grown in the East Indies. He was painfully surprised to find out that the West Indian peppers were incredibly hot. On his several voyages to the New World, Columbus collected…