A question for Dan Gill: A dear friend gave me a staghorn fern four or five years ago, and it now seems to have fallen on hard times. The round ball out of which the antlers grow seems to be ...

Otto von Bismarck, the powerful diplomatic deal-maker of 19th century Europe, is famously quoted as saying that politics is “the art of the possible.” Horticulture, by contrast, could be defined as ...