Dig It! Garden Blog

I started working the Vayo Meditation Garden early on. My first couple of years, the hort team, a single-digit numbered crew, worked together throughout the Gardens. We would split up into pairs and sometimes work…

Spring is quickly approaching and with that comes the great migration of amphibians!

In celebration of Women’s History Month, we collected just a few of our staff’s picks for the women who most influenced them, personally and professionally. Read on and celebrate the vital role of women in…

Scary? Nerve-racking? Definitely understandable. But once you have the basics down, the power to prune becomes nothing but liberating (not to mention a good late-winter workout…).

At the Gardens, you know we love our flowers, but dahlias? With their fierce following, colorful history, and bedazzling array of blooms, they’re the flower-lover’s flower. Even artist Claude Monet, who owed having become a…

Give your neighborhood birds some Valentine love—right from your kitchen! Fight the winter blues and try these fun ideas for homemade suet cakes. 

Given the past few years, resiliency is a term we’ve become familiar with and concerned about cultivating. But what does it mean to apply the term to our gardening and landscaping endeavors? As garden- and…

Take the trolls home with you this winter by learning more about the real-life botany and ecology behind their fairy tale! Here is the trolls’ essential reading list—20 books about trees, the forest, the people…