Hacker News with Generative AI: Gardening

Gardening can help you live better for longer (bbc.com)
Research shows gardening preserves cognitive function, helping you live well for longer. Now, dementia patients are reaping the benefits with "care farms" prescriptions.

Gardening, Health, Dementia, Cognitive Function, Research

6 points by 1659447091 9 days ago | 0 comments

Philadelphia's window-box gardens and urban reform (theconversation.com)
It’s that time of year when Philadelphia row home owners with a green thumb fastidiously attend to their window boxes – selecting new plants to design an artful blend of colors, shapes and textures.

Philadelphia, Urban Planning, Gardening, City Development

5 points by PaulHoule 17 days ago | 0 comments

The Cult of the American Lawn (noemamag.com)
“When Janet and Jeff Crouch sought to enliven their front yard in suburban Maryland with native black-eyed Susans, Joe-Pye weed, asters and coneflowers, they had no inkling that they were doing anything controversial.”

Gardening, Culture, American Culture, Environment

63 points by ecliptik 63 days ago | 104 comments

Best Fruit Trees That Thrive in Pots and Containers (marthastewart.com)
These beautiful plants will yield a bountiful, delicious harvest.

Gardening, Fruit Trees, Containers

6 points by mooreds 95 days ago | 0 comments

17th-century priory in France converted into a medieval-inspired topiary garden (houseandgarden.co.uk)
An inspiring sense of complete peace pervades the garden of Le Prieuré de Vauboin, an old priory in Sarthe, in western France, following its medieval-inspired conversion into a green sanctuary defined by formal parterres and a spectacular array of box topiary

Gardening, History, France

67 points by NoRagrets 135 days ago | 6 comments

The heirloom tomato org chart [video] (youtube.com)

Food, Gardening, Video

18 points by surprisetalk 186 days ago | 3 comments

No One Knows How Big Pumpkins Can Get (theatlantic.com)
A decade ago, the world’s heaviest pumpkin weighed 2,000 pounds. Now the 3,000-pound mark is within sight.

Agriculture, World Records, Gardening

9 points by paulpauper 210 days ago | 1 comments

Show HN: I made a site to quick identify any plant and learn how to care for it (frondly.app)
Identify any plant with a photo, get expert care advice. Your ultimate plant companion app.

Plants, Gardening, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Apps

110 points by adamaskun 216 days ago | 88 comments

The Art Of Niwaki (2017) (fantasticgardenersmelbourne.com.au)
Managing a garden is a form of art. Knowing what goes where is something that not everyone can do. However, often growing a traditional garden is not as interesting once the project is finished. That is something the old-time Japanese gardeners knew very well.

Gardening, Art, Japan

97 points by surprisetalk 253 days ago | 19 comments

Proplifting, Plant Piracy, and Dumpster Chocolates (taylor.town)
This essay is part of a series on offensive horticulture.

Gardening, Humor, Environmentalism, Crime

49 points by zdw 261 days ago | 36 comments

Moondance: Experience the marvel that is night-blooming tobacco (theamericanscholar.org)

Plants, Nature, Gardening, Botany

48 points by samclemens 262 days ago | 20 comments

The Paradoxical Paradise of the Garden (newyorker.com)

Gardening, Paradox, Nature, Art

3 points by Thevet 309 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Siram – Automate Watering Your Houseplants (siram.co)