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Should We Have Moved to Seattle? This Gardener’s Heart Says Maybe.
Fresh from speaking to the Northwest Perennial Alliance’s Hardy Plant Study Weekend in Seattle, Washington last weekend, and seeing the greatest concentration of home gardens (and enthusiastic home gardeners) I have probably ever seen in this country, only to come [...]
I’m apparently thrilled by basic clean-up
After This isn't your typical "after" photo, known on HGTV as the "Reveal!" What you see is the most prominent corner of my housing co-op's HQ building where I've been the volunteer landscaper/gardener for about four years. (Photos here, with [...]
Some Like It Hot
Heat arrived in Kentucky last week. I knew temperatures in the 90s would arrive sometime but hoped climate change would cut us some slack until July. Climate change is cutting very little slack, but we had a lovely spring with [...]

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– Washington Post gardening editor Adrian Higgins
You don’t need “no mow” to help pollinators
Now that “No Mow May” is half over, I want to support Susan in her recent critique of the “no mow” movement. I totally agree with her that if you’re going to have a lawn, you may [...]
Lowest-Maintenance Borders are All-Shrub
I'd venture to say the vast majority of Americans want their home landscape to be "low-maintenance." Indeed, as low as possible! When I was garden -coaching, at least 95 percent of my clients asked for that. Which [...]
Gardeners make terrariums; plants laugh
Then (left) and now The wonderful terrarium I had planted by a local shop last year is still wonderful; it’s just different. The large fishbowl had been the home of 2 previous terrariums, part of [...]
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