
Meghan Shinn
Editor at Horticulture Magazine
Articles
-
1 week ago |
hortmag.com | Meghan Shinn
New Jersey garden designer and educator Laura Janney works from the premise that plants bring happiness. Through her design studio, The Inspired Garden, she helps homeowners determine their preferred garden style, then draws up a plan that will create true joy. Annual planters factor significantly into her work, with clients requesting pots that are colorful and dramatic, especially by the front door.
-
1 week ago |
hortmag.com | Meghan Shinn
Silver Anouk lavender (Lavandula stoechas 'Silver Anouk') combines silver foliage with dark violet flowers crowned by lighter purple bracts. This fragrant lavender easily handles heat and drought, resists diseases and performs very well in borders, rock gardens and containers. Flowering begins in spring and continues for weeks. 'Silver Anouk' is a cultivar of Spanish lavender, considered more likely to succeed in hot and humid climates than English lavender (L. angustifolias and L. xintermedia).
-
2 weeks ago |
hortmag.com | Meghan Shinn
A native plant of eastern North America, wild geranium (Geranium maculatum) is a pollinator-friendly spring bloomer that contributes pink-purple flower color, leafy texture and weed suppression to woodland gardens. Common name: Wild geranium, spotted geraniumBotanical name: Geranium maculatumOrigin: Geranium maculatum is native across much of the eastern half of North America, from central and eastern Canada as far south as Arkansas and Georgia.
-
3 weeks ago |
hortmag.com | Meghan Shinn
The shade tables at your favorite garden center offer many perennials with foliage as their main feature. Think the intricate fronds of hardy ferns, the bold, broad leaves of giant hostas, the polka dots on lungwort (Pulmonaria). Many gardeners know how to combine foliage perennials for texture and color in shaded spaces, yet this strategy isn’t as often employed in the sun. That’s probably because there are more sun-loving plants with flowers as their main draw.
-
Feb 25, 2025 |
hortmag.com | Meghan Shinn
Pearls of Perfume is a hybrid mock orange (Philadelphus) that reblooms from spring through fall, with white double flowers that emit a citrusy scent. This fragrant shrub works in a mixed garden border or a large container, or it can be planted in multiples as a flowering hedge. Pearls of Perfume mock orange made the shortlist for Plant of the Year at 2023’s Chelsea Flower Show.
Try JournoFinder For Free
Search and contact over 1M+ journalist profiles, browse 100M+ articles, and unlock powerful PR tools.
Start Your 7-Day Free Trial →