As the gardening team at Buffalo’s Darwin Martin House—really a campus with seven structures on it—enters its second year of planting and maintaining the original landscape Frank Lloyd Wright planned [...]
There remains a certain snobbishness about annuals, partly because some perceive them as “common,” and partly because they’re, well, annual. (Many of us have seen the famous Plant Delights/Tony Avent [...]
Marcel Proust did not overestimate the power of the senses to recall the past. As soon as the first wave of fragrance from my ‘Garden Party’ orienpet lilies hits, I [...]
A better term is “physical distancing,” which is literally what I have to do when I am working in the front garden and anyone walks by. Rather than tread on [...]
Hope I'll soon be able to make a haul like this again, but safely. That was the question yesterday, as local green industry owners and employees were discussing [...]
Witch hazel in Central Park in March Nor, to a great extent, is the outdoors. As the menu of possible activities narrows exponentially—for New York this means no [...]
Lurie Gardens, Chicago If one more person asks me if I have heard of or read books by Doug Tallamy, I’ll …. Well, I guess I won't really [...]
Madison private garden We’re not exactly known as “fly-over” states, but some of us in the Great Lakes area have to try harder to convince out-of-towners we’re cool. It shouldn’t be necessary. Thanks to, [...]
I always have books around and these are good ones. I'll be giving these to the beginning gardeners I know, except for Tom's, which I'll keep. Beginning gardeners [...]
Cue the swelling music, and then … Huge! Magnificent! Spectacular! Astonishing! Extraaaooordinary! Count on hearing those superlatives and more over the course of Monty Don’s three-part American Gardens, which aired [...]
Yes, this is a thing. When I posed the question to a few close gardening friends, I got either or both of these responses: “Huh?” and “NO WAY!” However, I [...]
2010 was the year 70 garden bloggers came to Buffalo and toured this lovely spot, among others. There’s been a deluge of backward-looking articles and posts, so why [...]
