River Farm, AHS’s Headquarters, to be Sold
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 [...]
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 [...]
I had so completely tuned out HGTV as a source of gardening instruction or inspiration that I totally missed the July 31 premier of their Martha Stewart show "Martha Knows [...]
My local informal gardening group WAS going to put on a garden tour, so when that couldn't I began experimenting with virtual tours - online but with the option that local [...]
Back in May of 2018 I ranted about the "New Look for Gardeners Freaked out about Lyme Disease" using this image of a hazmat suit for yucks to illustrate the [...]
The announcement from the office of Melania Trump that the Rose Garden is getting an upgrade next month came at the worst possible time. It also came from one of [...]