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When Coming Home, Plants Take Priority
There’s a process to coming home after a long journey. There’s a process to settling back into one’s routines and ruts and beloved pillows and remembering the systems that facilitate the regular tick of one’s daily life. Gardeners – by [...]
USBG Holiday Train Show, now with Sculptures of Surprising Pollinators
When you hear about pollinators, and I'm happy to see lots of attention now being paid to their predicament, I bet you don't think of geckos, like this plant-based sculpture of one pollinating a Trochetia flower. Or even less likely [...]
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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' [...]
Good to the last leaf
There are a couple of magnificent, one hundred-and fifty-year-old gingkoes across the Ohio River in Louisville. Visitors to Cave Hill Cemetery and the Peterson-Dumesnil House make annual pilgrimages to see the colorful leaves. You can’t help being [...]
Hilly or Flat?
They may not make for good photos, but sloping gardens offer a journey of changed perspectives. The King's garden at Highgrove is flat. Which made me think about the different challenges and advantages of a garden being [...]
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