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The “A Recipe for Saving Seeds” exhibit will run at the Mass Aggie Seed Library from March 6 to June 2.

Get Growing with Mickey Rathbun: Free seeds: Mass Aggie Seed Library at UMass Amherst makes seeds accessible to all

by Mickey Rathbun For the GazetteFebruary 12, 2023

Multiple experiments around the world have concluded that there is a plausible connection between sound vibrations and plant growth.

Get Growing with Mickey Rathbun: The importance of talking to plants

by Mickey Rathbun For the GazetteJanuary 13, 2023

The “Root Slayer” is a V-shaped shovel with sharp serrated edges and a step that lets you throw your heft into the work. At around $60, it’s worth every penny.

Get Growing: Gifts your gardener will thank you for

by Mickey Rathbun For the GazetteDecember 9, 2022

Snowdrops (Galanthus) are the usually the earliest bulbs to bloom. They push their way up through snow and frozen muck, assuaging our fears that spring will never come.

Get Growing: Paying attention to the little bulbs

by Mickey Rathbun For the GazetteOctober 7, 2022

Although ajuga is not a particularly showy plant, it’s a reliable workhorse in the garden.

Get Growing with Mickey Rathbun: Lessons learned in a time of drought

by Mickey Rathbun For the GazetteSeptember 9, 2022

Sugarloaf Gardens manager Dan Ziomek checks on a autumn blaze maple tree Thursday morning in Sunderland.

Get Growing with Mickey Rathbun: An expert plantsman takes the reins at Sugarloaf Gardens

by Mickey Rathbun For the GazetteAugust 11, 2022

Iron sculptures of fiddleheads and a hummingbird in Maffei’s Shutesbury garden.

Shutesbury designer brings vision and long view to laying out greenspace

by Mickey Rathbun For the GazetteSeptember 9, 2021

A painting by Mickey Rathbun’s son Nicholas Benfey. “What first drew me to the painting were the audacious colors, oranges and reds butting up against purples and greens,” she says. “He painted it on an abandoned canvas he found that had already been painted. His colors are layered on top, allowing some of the original painting to appear as a pattern in a woman’s dress. His pot is like a three-dimensional version of the painting.”

Get Growing: A tale of two pots

by Mickey Rathbun For the GazetteJune 17, 2020

Verbena on a Stick brings in butterflies like this American Lady.

Get Growing: A tomato module grows in Manhattan, plus CSAs for pollinator-friendly plants

by Mickey Rathbun For the GazetteMay 27, 2020

Mating adult lily leaf beetles in Amherst. Photographed June 8, 2017.

Get Growing: Leaping lily leaf beetles!

by Mickey Rathbun For the GazetteMay 13, 2020