Lora Gauss

How do I love container gardening? Let me count the ways. Any container adds a burst of color to blah places such as decks, front stoops, back kitchen entryways, in between garage doors and in front of unsightly garden sheds.

Every Tuesday morning, at 9:30 a.m. sharp, a group of eight or so intrepid gardeners. including myself, descend on Centre Crest, a nursing facility in Bellefonte, prepared to inform, entertain and otherwise provide joy to the residents through our garden club programs.

In today’s fast-paced world, we often don’t have time to smell that Keurig coffee, let alone figure out how it made it into our morning mugs. However, it’s never too soon to understand some of the simple science behind how things like coffee beans grow.

Are you planning to give your mother, mother-in-law, stepmother, grandmother or any other mom a sleeve of cut flowers from a supermarket chain this coming Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 8?

When I was young and living in Fox Chase, a suburb of Philadelphia, our family of five would often pop into the green Rambler for a Saturday beach outing to Ocean City, N.J. Part of the ritual trip home was a stop at a roadside stand for Jersey beefsteak tomatoes.

“Look deep into nature, and you will understand everything better.” — Albert Einstein. Truer words were never spoken in relation to gardening. It is only by understanding the basic requirements of plants and how they flourish that we will have any chance of showing off that trellis of stunning

Do you consider yourself a seasoned gardener, surveying the perfectly manicured annual and perennial flower beds of your yard? Or are you more of a novice, struggling to plant a simple pot of red seed geraniums for the front porch? Wherever you fit in, including almost anywhere in between, you are c