High season · Week 38

Milkweed vs. the spotted lanternfly

An invasive pest is reshaping gardens across the Northeast — and the native plant that may help control it has been feeding monarchs and healing wounds for centuries.

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A flower-garden planner and a weekly care digest — written for your exact plants, zone, and frost dates.

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Grow with your yard, week by week.

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Map your beds with the companion bed designer, build a plant list from the field, and let a weekly plant-care digest tell you what to sow, cut, and watch for — every reminder tuned to your zone and frost dates, not a one-size calendar.

Most planning tools are built for vegetable rows. This one is for flower gardens, written by a grower in Beacon, NY — with landscape consulting when you want a second pair of hands in the yard.

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The companion bed designer: a to-scale grid with plants placed across a 2 × 1.5 yard bed, bed dimensions, and a sunlight slider

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Live feedback: a bed harmony score of 79 with light, water, soil and spacing readouts, and 86% bloom coverage across the season

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Your yard's tasks, every Thursday.

A weekly digest built from your exact plant list and frost dates — what to sow, cut, and watch for, emailed each Thursday and always live on your digest page.

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A home-grown garden guide in the Hudson Valley.

Batten Blooms is Libby Batten - a software engineer, lifelong gardener and nature lover. After years of growing flowers for friends and family, she launched Batten Blooms in 2026 to share her harvest with others, and connect with other gardeners (at all levels) in the community.

Years in the tech industry — including work with Shopify and multiple e-commerce platforms — helps Libby bring the same precision and problem-solving to her garden that she brings to her code. Whether she's debugging a pipeline or coaxing dahlias out of clay soil, the goal is the same: build something that works beautifully and brings people joy.

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