Ed Lyon on How to Write about Native Plants
I'm back with another report about a terrific talk I heard during the garden communicator conference in Salt Lake City. This time, it's a talk by Ed Lyon, director of Reiman [...]
I'm back with another report about a terrific talk I heard during the garden communicator conference in Salt Lake City. This time, it's a talk by Ed Lyon, director of Reiman [...]
Summer of 2019. Last year I wrote about the weedy mess of a perennial bed in front of my town's most important historic building. In 1985. [...]
Pergolas in Daybreak, UT, outside Salt Lake City. A pergola in Maryland I saw way too much water-sucking landscaping when I was in Salt Lake City, [...]
Temple Gardens, Salt Lake City As soon as I arrived in Salt Lake City for the national conference of garden communicators last month I heard from multiple sources [...]
I'm here to vent. In order to provide some enclosure and block the primary view from my house of a parking lot, I did the only thing that my co-op's [...]
I feel lucky every time I ride the subway down to the National Mall, where the many museums and gardens are free - and fabulous. I did that recently and [...]
Saturday night in Salt Lake City was awfully good to GardenRanter Scott Beuerlein. First he collected a gold GardenComm Media Award for writing his magazine column. In the photo above [...]
I have a back-to-school post! Readers may remember my posts about the History of Landscape course I took last semester at the University of Maryland (as a free-tuition retiree – [...]
Robert Cook in rain garden, with elderberry. My post about a recent tour of Baltimore gardens omitted one because it was SO interesting, I wanted to go back and [...]
'Standing Ovation' Little Bluestem. Credit: North Creek Nurseries. Got deer? Then you relate to this sad before-and-after duo. I'd planted the red Iresine 'Blazin' Rose' there before, with [...]
There's only one national park dedicated to aquatic plants, and that's Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens, located surprisingly IN the District of Columbia. I was there in Mid-July for their Lotus and [...]
Did you know that Washington, D.C., with 1.2 million square feet of green roofs as of 2014, won bragging rights as the greenest U.S. city? No, really. (Source: EcoWatch.) If [...]