Cincinnati Zoo has Baby Hippos and Great Landscapes, Too
If you know anything about the famous Cincinnati Zoo, it may be thanks to its photo- and video-genic baby hippos, like Fiona and Fritz above. I follow the Zoo on [...]
If you know anything about the famous Cincinnati Zoo, it may be thanks to its photo- and video-genic baby hippos, like Fiona and Fritz above. I follow the Zoo on [...]
Lucky me. When I posted to Facebook that I'd be going to Lexington, KY to see the town I was born in, a "friend" I didn't actually know introduced herself [...]
I'll admit it's humbling to reread this post from 2018 in which I defended Periwinkle (Vinca minor) when it's grown where it can't do any harm. An example is in [...]
Every year I notice one plant in particular that people seemed to like above all the rest, at least enough to comment on it, and this year it's the common [...]
My Takoma Park, Md. home in 1985, the year I bought it. My recent post about the attractive fence my next-door neighbors installed included a gratuitous but ardent [...]
During the first years in my townhouse, this was the dull-dull backdrop of my front garden, with old grey siding, black shutters and metal chairs, and a forest green umbrella. [...]
It's fair season and I'm curious - is there one near you and do you attend? The Virginia State Fair was a highlight of my childhood, an event only outdone [...]
I've ranted about hedges in suburbia and the many problems they cause, especially single-species hedges and ones in small spaces. Still, I'm more than open to better hedges in better [...]
In small townhouse gardens like mine, I've found that fences not only make good neighbors - they help create "garden rooms," the sense of enclosure that makes you want to [...]
Tamar Haspel has written the "Unearthed" column in the Washington Post since 2011, so why hadn't I even heard of it until two weeks ago? Because it's in the Food [...]
I posted here about deciding NOT to remove all the old, overgrown and crappy-looking Junipers in front of this building. Commenters warned that if allowed to stand, the massive plants would [...]
If like me you follow the American Horticultural Society on Facebook, you've seen lots of posts this week about their National Children and Youth Garden Symposium that's finishing up [...]