Kentucky Hemp and The Great American Weed Rush
I have a history of occasional, informal, peer-reviewed, THC trials of psychoactive marijuana. The trial was simple: I smoked marijuana with friends. I try to imagine I was judged, [...]
Allen Bush
How Do We Raise More Farmers?
I may have come across the future of American farming. Mind you, what I found was small-scale farming, but if farming and rural communities are to survive, it may come [...]
Gertrude Jekyll Border at Raulston Arboretum
Edith Eddleman and the Jekyll Border at the J.C. Raulston Arboretum. I arrived in Raleigh a few days before last week’s Perennial Plant Association (PPA) Symposium. I checked [...]
A Summer Phlox Survives Storms and Spies
A field of Russian phloxes. Christian Kress, Sarastro-Stauden photo. Just off our front porch, a Phlox of sentimental interest didn’t flinch during heavy storms a week and a [...]
Great Dixter Through the Lens of an 11-Year Old
Rose and I traveled to England early this month with Story May Lowe, our 11-year-old granddaughter. To Story, I am known as Babu a name I inherited. My grandfather was [...]
In the Garden This Year I’m Betting on Cool Breezes, Soaking Rains and Joyous Moments
My good luck began this spring with a three-year-old thoroughbred named Justify. I was smitten the first moment I saw the beautiful chestnut-colored horse walk onto the Churchill Downs track [...]
Time to Rethink “Pretty” in the Garden
Benjamin Vogt and I began an email exchange last March after I read his very interesting A New Garden Ethic: Cultivating Defiant Compassion for an Uncertain Future.
Movie review – “Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf”
The documentary Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf opens with Oudolf pulling out colored pens and drawing, with his left hand, bright squiggles, slashes, curlicues and abbreviated Latin plant [...]
Kentucky’s Secret Gardens, Including Mine, on TV
Looking for inspiration and information? Catch a glimpse of Kentucky's Secret Gardens. Author Tavia Cathcart Brown hosts the documentary, sponsored by Kentucky Education Television (KET). I was flattered to be [...]
Owl Decoy Saves Magnolia from Sapsuckers
“I would rather have thirty minutes of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special.” -Robert Harling, Steel Magnolias Our saucer magnolia had a tiny bit of stamina left, but I didn’t [...]
Our first “Daffodil Doodah” Party Got Snowed On
Scott Pruitt was scolded recently for flying first class at taxpayers’ expense. The Administrator of the EPA was sent back to coach class for punishment. Do me a favor if [...]
Kentucky Legislature to Cripple the Solar Power Industry
Salvisa, KY. I retired from Jelitto Perennial Seeds last month, and it’s been cold and gray in Kentucky ever since. I’m itching for spring. I have to be [...]