Will AI Apps ChatGPT and Dall-E Change Garden-Writing?
ChatGPT for Text I bet you've noticed the buzz about new apps that use artificial intelligence and their potential impacts, especially Chat GPT, which creates works of writing [...]
Susan Harris
From Gardenblogging to Hoop-Dance Vlogging
Practicing tossing the hoop in the open area just outside my yard. You know, I've been garden-blogging a LONG time now - since 2005. Then in 2012 [...]
The Beloved MANTS Nursery Trade Show is BACK!
Photo by Kirk Brown in gorgeous lobby of the Lord Baltimore Hotel The Mid-Atlantic Nursery Trade Show at the Baltimore Convention Center is my favorite happening in January [...]
The Reigning Queen of Gardening is…Oprah?
By now I'm betting you've all seen this view of Oprah Winfrey's garden, the set of her famous interviews with Harry and Meghan. But look at another shot of Oprah's [...]
A “Brutal” Bonsai Story Gets Curiouser and Curiouser
I'm here to recommend a fascinating article about bonsai in the New Yorker - "The Beautiful, Brutal World of Bonsai" - featuring an American who undergoes a "brutal" six-year apprenticeship [...]
Maryland HOAs can’t require lawn but neglected-looking yards still aren’t okay
December 14, 2022 story in the New York Times This Maryland couple fought HOA rules requiring them to grow lawn and it resulted in a new state law [...]
Why I moved these containers INTO the borders
It seemed only natural to place my planted-up containers ON the patios in my garden, as seen in this photo of my front yard. But there were problems with this [...]
Who’s Ready for Lego Houseplants?
The answer: ME! I've murdered enough houseplants in my decades of trying to keep them alive to be curiously open to the idea of fake plants for indoors. So the [...]
A Journey and Much Glory for a North Carolina Red Spruce, the 2022 Capitol Christmas Tree
UPDATE: Big spread in the Washington Post about this tree's role in the campaign to save the Red Spruce. (Paywall troubles? Try accessing it through your public library's website.) [...]
New Plant-Based Landmarks at the U.S. Botanic Garden
I last posted about the amazing plant-based monument replicas at the U.S. Botanic Garden back in 2018, and I think it's time for an update. One of the recent additions [...]
Truth-Telling and Unusually Interesting People on Garden Podcasts
I'm a long-time podcast listener, using them for entertainment and sometimes even enlightenment while I'm gardening, walking, driving and even cycling. And mixed in with the many podcasts about politics, [...]
Fall Foliage and the Scariest Garden in Town
Great Foliage in My Garden Fothergilla in my garden, late October. In July I showed off the 16 native plants that MAKE my garden, but excluded my Fothergilla [...]