Jessica Damiano
Jessica Damiano is a master gardener and journalist with more than 20 years experience in radio, television, print and online media. She has worked on Newsday's interactive endeavors since 1994, and currently is Senior Editor overseeing ExploreLI.com and Newsday's Lifestyle and Entertainment coverage. Jessica enjoys toiling in her garden -- a never-finished work in progress -- and helping local gardeners solve their horticultural problems in her Garden Detective column, which appears every Sunday in Newsday. The Garden Detective blog was awarded a 2008 Press Club of Long Island Society of Professional Journalists Online Features Reporting Award. Jessica lives in Glen Head, NY, with her husband John, daughters Justine and Julia, mutt Maddie, and a whole bunch of perennials, vegetable plants and weeds.
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Jessica Damiano 5/3/12 Making the most of a small garden
When it comes to gardening, more isn't necessarily better. ... Read more »
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Jessica Damiano 4/28/12 Garden Detective: May chores
Typically, April showers beget May flowers, but many of my May flowers already have bloomed. ... Read more »
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Jessica Damiano 4/18/12 Plant Easter lilies and other gift plants in the garden
The springtime holidays are over, colored eggs found and eaten, lamb, pork and brisket feasted ... Read more »
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Jessica Damiano 4/12/12 Garden Detective: Butterfly bush, aphids, spider mites
DEAR JESSICA: I know you advise cutting butterfly bushes almost to ground level in early ... Read more »
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Jessica Damiano 4/6/12 Garden Detective: Choosing scented plants
What do you love most about your garden? If you're like most people, your instinctual ... Read more »
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Jessica Damiano 3/30/12 Garden Detective: 'Hunger Games' foraging at home
OK -- a quick show of hands: Who hasn't heard of "The Hunger Games"? ... Read more »
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Jessica Damiano 3/22/12 Garden Detective: April chores
My pansies never entered dormancy this winter, and the hellebores started really early, but I'm ... Read more »
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Jessica Damiano 3/15/12 Garden Detective: getting rid of rabbits
DEAR JESSICA: Help! Every spring I buy hundreds of dollars' worth of plants and flowers, ... Read more »
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Jessica Damiano 3/8/12 Garden Detective: Beware of boxwood blight
Boxwood blight has hit North America, and experts fear it will ravage plants on Long ... Read more »
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Jessica Damiano 3/1/12 A mystery plant, shriveled grapes and ashes in the garden
DEAR JESSICA: I planted this flower at least 15 years ago thinking it was an ... Read more »
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Jessica Damiano 2/27/12 Garden Detective: March chores
It's been such an unpredictable winter, who knows what kind of weather March will bring? ... Read more »
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Jessica Damiano 2/16/12 Garden Detective: new map, new prospects
The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently unveiled a long-awaited update of its 1990 U.S. Plant ... Read more »
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Jessica Damiano 2/9/12 Garden Detective: pruning raspberries
DEAR JESSICA: When is the best time to prune a raspberry bush I planted last ... Read more »
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Jessica Damiano 1/30/12 Garden Detective: Dud orchid blooms
DEAR JESSICA: About seven to 10 years ago, I purchased a small orchid and planted ... Read more »
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Jessica Damiano 1/26/12 Garden Detective: February chores
It's February, and you know what that means? We're halfway through winter! It's also time ... Read more »
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Jessica Damiano 1/19/12 Garden Detective: 5 arboretums to visit in winter
Your own garden may be looking bleak right about now, and with summer a distant ... Read more »
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Jessica Damiano 1/11/12 Garden Detective: sorry impatiens in '11
DEAR JESSICA: I have a garden that gets only about four hours of sun, which ... Read more »
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Jessica Damiano 1/5/12 Garden Detective: carnivorous plants
When we brought my mutt of a puppy home three years ago, she tore the ... Read more »
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Jessica Damiano 1/1/12 Garden Detective: January chores
Did you make any mistakes in 2011? Maybe you transplanted roses in the heat of ... Read more »
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Jessica Damiano 12/22/11 Garden Detective: Spider zips into hearts
DEAR JESSICA: This beautiful spider has been living in our garden for several months. Based ... Read more »
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Jessica Damiano 12/14/11 Garden Detective: fighting powdery mildew
DEAR JESSICA: My problem is with bushes I planted about 10 years ago. They are ... Read more »
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Jessica Damiano 12/8/11 Garden Detective: keeping poinsettias
DEAR JESSICA: My gardening days are over; I'm 88 years old and in a retirement ... Read more »
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Jessica Damiano 12/7/11 How to choose a tree that will survive the holiday
Don't you hate it when you bring home a Christmas tree, and by the time the ... Read more »
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Jessica Damiano 11/29/11 Garden Detective: December chores
Some see December as the beginning of the "off-season," but in actuality there is no ... Read more »
