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Azaleas, once scorned, are welcome again in my garden
These chairs I painted last fall just HAPPEN to match the azaleas behind them. Believe me, I didn't even consider the azaleas when I chose the paint color. When I moved into my townhouse 9+ years ago I [...]
The Pleasures of Morels vs. The Fear of Black Bears: A Letter To The Midwest
May 13, 2021 Lovettsville, VA Dear Scott, The may apples have begun to bloom and the morels are fruiting. As your words on the subject of mushrooming were predictably dismissive the last time I brought it up, I hesitate to [...]
I Traded My Greenhouse for a Water Jug
Garden Rant frowns on How-To stories, but I’m making an exception and a confession. I started gardening as a little boy and was passionate and curious. I stumbled along and graduated, eventually, to a commercial, heated greenhouse. I [...]
Ellen Biddle Shipman, restored
For decades, it was an overgrown tangle of weed trees and buckthorn, with its few original plantings nearly strangled by years of neglect. When attention was finally paid to Graycliff, Buffalo’s formerly magnificent lakeside structure by Frank Lloyd Wright, built [...]
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– Washington Post gardening editor Adrian Higgins
Huge Rift at American Hort Society over Sale of River Farm
I reported here last October that the American Horticultural Society had decided to sell its historic River Farm headquarters, and mentioned some blowback from the community. Well! Since then the blowback has turned into a tsunami of [...]
Exploring Yellow Island
Yellow Island I am, floristically speaking, a sybarite. Though I will attempt to enjoy the occasional long weekend at an Oberoi or Four Seasons, especially so as the guest of a wealthy friend, and will [...]
Building Habitat Nests – For Wildlife and For Me
Over the last two winters, I’ve been engaged in a curious pursuit which has baffled some visitors but thrilled others – precisely the way I love to garden. I’m building habitat nests – and it’s one of [...]
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