Bravo’s “Backyard Envy”
The Manscaper design/install team starring in "Backyard Envy" Gardeners, especially garden bloggers, have long complained about the dearth of gardening shows on TV, and I had little hope for "Backyard [...]
Susan Harris
Scenes from a Nursery Trade Show – MANTS
The Mid-Atlantic Nursery Trade Show is happening in Baltimore this week, and garden communicators (formerly "writers") were there in droves! Here we all are at the breakfast event for media. [...]
Glenstone in Winter
Approach to the Pavilions. Photo credit: Iwan Baan, Glenstone Museum The DC area's biggest art news in 2018 was by all accounts the opening of a much-expanded contemporary art museum [...]
U. Maryland Garden Teaches, Feeds, and Solves Runoff
This garden on the campus of the University of Maryland isn't about prettifying the campus, though it IS an improvement. It's about teaching students how to grow food, manage stormwater [...]
Plant-Based Seasons Greetings at the U.S. Botanic Garden
This time of year, visitors entering the U.S. Botanic Garden get this rather somber view of the U.S. Capitol across the street. Inside, from now until New Year's Day, the [...]
Houseplanters Who Do YouTube
Monika's houseplant-filled terrace somewhere in India The article "Meet the Plantfluencers" in the New York Times seemed to demonstrate that the much-pursued Millennials DO garden - just not [...]
That Day I Thought Gardening had Given me a Heart Attack
The other day I was working in this garden, digging up and planting large clumps of these Black-eyed Susans, when my body suddenly scared the bejesus out of me. My [...]
High Line Now a Completed Work of Art
I first visited the High Line - New York's famous elevated park along an abandoned railroad track - in 2013 when it was new and incomplete but already stunning, especially in [...]
The Campus Gardens of a Real Plant Geek, with Friends
Horticulturist Sam Bahr, like so many people who work at the University of Maryland, is someone I first met as a neighbor in nearby Historic Greenbelt. He got his coveted job [...]
The Grand Gardens of Baltimore
Baltimore may be best known nationally for its murder rate and The Wire on HBO, but in horticulture circles it's known for plants and gardens. So I happily signed up for [...]
On the Dissing of “Ornamental Plants”
Anyone else bothered by the term "ornamental" to distinguish certain plants from those that are considered useful, usually edibles? For example,Wikipedia uses this petunia to illustrate the term and offers this [...]
“Invasive” Ground Covers and the Case for Allowing Periwinkle
I have a beef with the inclusion of Periwinkle (Vinca minor) on my coop's list of banned plants - banned because they're considered invasive (despite NOT being listed on [...]