I Painted my Pots, and You May Not Like the Result
These pots in my back garden used to contain bold-colored annuals that grew surprisingly large - particularly the red Iresine here with sweet potato vine. Then the deer found them [...]
These pots in my back garden used to contain bold-colored annuals that grew surprisingly large - particularly the red Iresine here with sweet potato vine. Then the deer found them [...]
Time to update my bird bath post, which declared the bath to be awaiting use by actual birds. I had temporarily moved it away from the house and close to [...]
Now that almost everyone concedes that the Bidens will be moving into the White House soon (hopefully, soon enough!), local garden writers like me are pondering what admittedly is the [...]
I come to praise a public garden in the Maryland suburbs of D.C. for helping thousands of locals get outdoors in nature, move their bodies and feel a little saner [...]
River Farm, headquarters of the American Horticultural Society First we all read the big news - that the American Horticultural Society, in order to survive financially, has decided [...]
Browntail moth – note the tail! My post about Lyme Disease – especially my forgetting to freak out about it, thanks to worrying about Covid – prompted this [...]
In lieu of organizing an in-person garden tour this year, I've gone virtual, making or helping make 8 video "tours" so far, with just one more to go. At first [...]
Admittedly, mentioning a trivial controversy in the gardening world today - with everything that's happening!! - seems ridiculous, but that's exactly what I thought when I saw this graphic posted [...]
Almost no traffic on Pennsylvania Avenue. I hadn't been downtown DC since last year, so with glorious September weather upon us, I was determined to go. But I'm [...]
Let me introduce a national park you've never heard of - the Greenbelt National Park, 1,200 acres of woods, trails and campsites just 10 miles outside of DC. It's even [...]
White House Lawn In our continuing effort to keep you informed about the White House grounds - not because those 17 acres are important in the grand scheme, but because [...]
UPDATE: This is not what I had in mind: In a recent post I used this photo of what I declared was my final design for the little nook out [...]