I visited the beautiful 15-acre Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, Florida, last month. This living museum was tricked out like an Easter egg hunt. There were eggs, for [...]
Rose and I left our garden behind last week to go shelling and birding on Sanibel, Captiva and Cayo Costa. We follow a routine, repeated for a week or two [...]
Rose and Story prepare for the sea hunt at Hanauma Bay on Oahu. Rose and I stared out the kitchen window, last month, while fat robins feasted on [...]
What does “gardening like there’s no tomorrow” really mean? Do you think your garden, and earth, can avoid the ongoing sixth mass extinction? The U.N.’s recent “bleak” climate report may [...]
Be realistic, demand the impossible. Che Guevara I am waging war against frustration, and impatience is an obstacle. My struggle may take two or three years before there is a [...]
My mind was made up 43 years ago after a week filled with cheap vino tinto, emotional Fado music and lots of walking up and down steep hills in Lisbon. [...]
Louisville Climate Strike There were student-led Global Climate Strikes all over the world last Friday, inspired by the lovable 16-year old Greta Thunberg. An estimated two hundred people [...]
Tree saps are head over heels for red maples... Natalie Jeremijenko's "Tree Logic" at Mass MoCa, North Adams, MA. Hayly Fisher is a barista. She waters humble sidewalk [...]
"Artemis Rat Okra” aka V.E.G. Ham. Let me introduce Van Eugene Gatewood Ham, a native of Greenville, Mississippi, with a soft spot for okra. Gene Ham visits Central [...]
Rose unleashes the Louisville garden. I am 68 years old and have been gardening for almost 50 years. For more than a third of this long garden row—18 [...]
I go back a long way with the award-winning Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest. My first experiences at Bernheim were grade school bus trips to the nature center in the [...]
Concrete Rose wins the Edgewood Stakes at Churchill Downs. Churchill Downs was packed for two days last Derby weekend. On Friday, instead of slurping sugary mint juleps and [...]
