Weekend Reading 10/27/23

Welcome to Garden Center magazine's Weekend Reading, a weekly round-up of consumer garden media stories meant to help IGCs focus marketing efforts, spark inspiration and start conversations with consumers.

This week: Accessible gardening tips, how to make your community greener without getting in trouble, the race to identify new plant species, an interview with a gardening creator and an explainer on fog gardening.

Gardening can be a physical challenge. These tips make it accessible, Washington Post

Gardening offers a number of health benefits, but you don’t need to kneel down in the dirt or lift heavy shovels to grow something beautiful, Amanda Morris and Alexa Juliana Ard write for the Washington Post.

Guerilla gardening: how you can make your local area greener without getting into trouble, The Conversation

Guerrilla gardeners are part of a movement that encourages people to nurture and revive land they do not have the legal rights to cultivate.

Kew Gardens’ Alexandre Antonelli: ‘We may be losing species before we even notice them', The Guardian

Alexandre Antonelli, director of science at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, says that scientists globally find about 20 new species of plants every day, but there’s still a race against time because species could be lost before they're even noticed or described. He also outlines the biggest threats to biodiversity.

From NYC to manifesting abundance in Tennessee: Meet TikTok's viral gardener Brian Brigantti, The Tennessean

Brian Brigantti sat down with the Tennessean to discuss his own roots in gardening, what it means for him to be recognized as a Latino LGBTQ+ creator and shared some of his own tips for beginner gardeners.

The next trend in indoor gardening? Fog, The Globe and Mail

A Canadian startup has created a new indoor gardening system to grow herbs and produce without soil, regular watering or upkeep, instead using “fogponics."

Enjoy your reading, have a great weekend and we'll see you next week!