When you hear about pollinators, and I'm happy to see lots of attention now being paid to their predicament, I bet you don't think of geckos, like this plant-based sculpture [...]
This week I'm here to show off visions of peak fall color in my tiny townhouse back garden. Hey, maybe it'll inspire other gardeners in small spaces. The top photo [...]
The Beth Chatto Symposium "Rewilding the Mind" showcased many of the leading European voices in ecological landscaping, and it's all available online, FREE! And I learned about it from Canadian [...]
If you recall my rant about the utterly sterile, sad graveyard I noticed in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, in this post I'm raving about the exact opposite cemetery. Its founder envisioned [...]
This video from the Kew Mutual Improvement Society in the U.K. blew my mind a bit and I'm curious to see what you guys think. It's an online lecture by [...]
Entrance garden includes Hesperaloe parviflora, the pink flower seen here. It's a favorite of hummingbirds. I'm back with another Ed Snodgrass story, this one about a tour of [...]
Ed Snodgrass is best known for the green roof plants he grows at his nursery in Maryland and his green-roof consulting around the world. After first visiting his "farm" in [...]
You may recognize this photo of podcaster Leslie Harris's garden in Charlottesville, VA from my visit in early April. Well, it wasn't long after that that Leslie announced that she [...]
Nandina 'Burgundy Wine' along the front of my house - in January. Other evergreens are Osmanthus 'Goshiki' and Carex 'Ice Dance'. I recently welcomed visitors to my townhouse [...]
In my recent post covering Henry Mitchell's advice about lawns and alternatives thereto, I promised to next share his ideas on designing gardens for lower maintenance, also from The Essential [...]
Staff from the Smithsonian's National Zoo harvesting bamboo in Greenbelt, Md. There's acres of the dreaded invasive running bamboo in my neighborhood, like there is in many of [...]
The Garden Shoe Upgrade Back in 2010, for some reason, I lined up all my gardening shoes for this enticing group photo. The shoes mostly kept my feet dry and [...]
