Weekend Reading 11/10/23

This week: A money-saving way to use less potting soil, Christmas flowers and plants other than poinsettias, a list of gardening gifts from the Wall Street Journal and how gardening helped a grieving mother.

Why You'll Want To Start Filling Your Flower Pot With Aluminum Foil, House Digest

House Digest recommends using aluminum foil as a filler at the bottom of pots and planters as a way to use less soil and save money. Doing so may also help pots and planters with drainage.

20 Festive Christmas Flowers and Plants That Aren't Poinsettias, House Beautiful

House Beautiful says that it doesn't feel like Christmas without a brightly colored poinsettia or two, but it's not the only plant or flower that can make the holidays more colorful and festive, with the publication offering a list of 20 other festive Christmas flowers and plants.

28 Gifts for Gardeners, According to Plant Experts, Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal shares 28 gifts for gardeners, from garden tools to apparel. Are you carrying these in your garden center?

What Gardening Offered After a Son’s Death, The New Yorker

"A garden is a place full of random, diverting, and irrelevant happenings, and a garden, as good as a rabbit hole, serves also as an antidote to a black hole...A flower, like a thought, a sentence, a book, is but a placeholder," writes Yiyun Li, whose 16-year-old son died the same day their family put down a deposit for a house.

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