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“It’s a fringed polygala!” Rathbun’s friend exclaimed.

Get Growing: Solitary pleasures

by Mickey Rathbun For the Gazette May 23, 2019

A ratchet pruner made by Ironwood Tool Co. at Hadley Garden Center.

Get Growing: Tools for aging gardeners

by Mickey Rathbun For the Gazette May 16, 2019

Another plant that used to fool me with its possum routine was Heuchera. It tends to greet me in early spring looking like a mop of shriveled brown leaves.

Is that plant dead?

by Mickey Rathbun For the Gazette May 2, 2019

Get Growing: Today is Arbor Day!

by Mickey Rathbun For the Gazette April 26, 2019

Get Growing: Witch Hazel

by Mickey Rathbun For the Gazette April 11, 2019

Crocus, Field, Flower, Springtime, Blossom

Get Growing: Embracing spring garden chores

by Mickey Rathbun For the Gazette April 5, 2019

Brown relishes the sugaring ritual, because “it makes you feel like spring has arrived.”

Get Growing: Making maple syrup at home

by Mickey Rathbun For the Gazette March 28, 2019

Andy Cowles, above, who attended the Stockbridge School of Agriculture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has been in business for 35 or 40 years. “I’m not sure how long,” he said.

Get Growing: ‘The best art show around’

by Mickey Rathbun For the Gazette March 14, 2019

Hydrangea

Jump-start spring

by Mickey Rathbun For the Gazette March 8, 2019

Tom Clark, director and curator of the mount Holyoke College Botanic Garden, works in the Talcott Greenhouse on the spring flower show, "Seasons of Change" on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019. Hanging from the glass above is part of an art installation by three students, Deborah Korboe, Emily Damon and Lauren Ferrara. The wax impressions, by Damon, represent spring in the three-season piece.

Get Growing: Inside the bulb shows

by Mickey Rathbun For the Gazette March 1, 2019