Flash back to fall of 2021--our Fine Gardening Team Leader, Patrick, writes about a company field trip to North Carolina's best public gardens. Temperatures have cooled, and fall color has begun to grace the trees throughout Albemarle County. Autumn is a time marked by change, its calm transitions contrasting with the vibrancy of spring and summer. Perched on the...
All of the public gardens that we visited on our first company trip since 2019 to North Carolina took advantage of xeriscaping* and/or water conservation in one way or another. After the terribly dry summer that we’ve had this year, I was relieved to see such lush and varied solutions to some of the challenges our climate is throwing at us. Mary Duke Biddle Rose...
Never Stop Learning Another season of gardening has come and gone, and despite a global pandemic, it was a great year! Fortunately, gardeners including us at J.W. Townsend could continue working outside while maintaining a safe distance from our peers and wearing masks. We have always considered ourselves to be lucky to work in a daily horticultural paradise, but the...