The Gathering Garden Magazine
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The Herb Spiral Is the Small-Space Garden Design Trend Built for Drying Your Own Flowers
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The herb spiral showed up in backyards long before anyone called it a trend. Permaculture designers were building them in the 1970s as a way to gro... -
That Weird Triangle Under the Stairs Doesn't Have to Stay Empty
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Every house with a staircase has one: the shrinking triangle of floor underneath it, too short to stand in, too odd-shaped for real furniture, too ... -
Pathways First: Why Garden Designers Plan the Walk Before the Beds
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Most home gardeners design outward from the flower beds. Professionals design inward from the path. It's a small sequencing change with an outsized effect. -
What Your Zoom Background Says About You (And How to Fix It in Five Minutes)
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The average office worker now spends several hours a week on video calls, which means the wall behind a desk gets more sustained, close-up viewing ... -
Designing a Cutting Garden for Drying: Craspedia, Yarrow, and the Layout That Works
Not every cutting garden is planted with drying in mind. A practical layout guide for growing craspedia and yarrow specifically for the drying rack. -
Digging Deep: How to Save Your Dahlia Tubers Before the First Frost Takes Them
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Late August is when serious dahlia growers start thinking about the ground, not the bloom. A practical, no-nonsense guide to lifting, curing, and storing dahlia tubers so this year's plants come back next summer. -
Succession Sowing: How to Keep a Cutting Garden Blooming From June Into October
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Most first-time cutting gardens make the same mistake, and it isn't a mistake of care — it's a mistake of scheduling. Everything gets sown at once ... -
That Blank Trellis Doesn't Have to Wait for Vines
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A newly planted climber can take years to fill in an arbor. Here's how to give a bare trellis instant structure while you wait.
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Fall Is Secretly the Best Time to Start a Perennial Bed: A Coneflower Primer for Impatient Gardeners
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Most people wait until spring to start a perennial bed and then wonder why the first year looks thin. Coneflower is proof that fall, not April, is when the real head start happens. -
Your Garden Bed Doesn't Need More Plants Going Into Fall. It Needs This.
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A garden bed thinning out for the season looks bare fast. Metal dragonfly stakes add movement and color without another plant to maintain. -
The Dye Garden Nobody's Planting: Why Safflower Deserves a Spot Next to Your Tomatoes
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Long before synthetic dye, safflower colored the world's fabrics, rouge pots and rice. Here's how to grow it in a home cutting garden, and dry it for color that lasts all winter. -
Seventeen Years in the Lavender Rows: What Growing Flowers by Hand Actually Teaches You
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Seventeen years of growing and drying lavender by hand, and the lessons that only show up after the tenth harvest — on timing, humidity, and why the imperfect stems are usually the best ones.
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