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State Department’s Smart, Biodiverse Landscaping is Spreading Around the World, One Embassy at a Time
Entrance garden includes Hesperaloe parviflora, the pink flower seen here. It's a favorite of hummingbirds. I'm back with another Ed Snodgrass story, this one about a tour of the remarkable landscape at the State Department's training facility in [...]
Grow a Eupatorium.
I’ve been trying to get my head round Eupatoriums, which I see (and ignore) have become Eutrochium. Well, some of them have. Some have become something else. Some might be Ageratina. Ask Ben. There are at least three which I [...]
Apocalypse at the garden gate? Not if I can help it.
I wanted to write a garden story with a dozen pictures of pulchritude, but it felt somehow dishonest. Dragging hoses around for weeks has worn me out. At least the North Mercer County Water Department had the courtesy, kindness, [...]
Late September gardens that are anything but dull
What does a great September garden look like? I received multiple, resoundingly convincing answers to that question last weekend. You might call them definitive. The annual garden bloggers/grammers/tubers get-together was held in the Philadelphia area September 21-24. It’s known simply [...]
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The Truth about Nandinas Killing Birds
Nandina 'Burgundy Wine' along the front of my house - in January. Other evergreens are Osmanthus 'Goshiki' and Carex 'Ice Dance'. I recently welcomed visitors to my townhouse garden, happily at first, until I was [...]
Plantsmanship 101
“You must visit my friend Mary; she's a plantswoman.” I'm a fairly placid sort of chap really. I do what I do and I'm largely happy for the world around me to just happen. The word 'plantsman' [...]
An Honest Ranter’s Thoughts About Saving Your Amaryllis
Just because we CAN do a thing, doesn’t mean we SHOULD do a thing or even MUST do a thing. This applies as equally to saving tender plants as it does to committing murder; and for a [...]
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