Nature, wildlife, and how gardening affects the environment.
Look who I found giving talks and webinars for the Wild Ones national website - Larry Weaner - horticulturist, top designer of meadows in the Eastern U.S. That's where I [...]
In the three weeks since I launched my latest project - a Lawnless Front Yards photo collection on Flickr - the response has been amazing, and so fun! Certainly compared [...]
Last year I visited the wild bee lab near me, with its funky little building, amazing macro photography, and native plants galore. I got to interview the famous Sam Droege, [...]
From left, my former lawnless back yard on the cover of Evelyn Hadden's wonderful book - sadly, now out of print - and my former lawnless front yard in [...]
The 8th of May is a special day in the calendar for the residents of the Cornish town of Helston. This is Flora Day, a traditional celebration of the end [...]
The problem - weed-infested junipers in co-op common areas No one would contest the fact that the junipers at the entrances to parking lots in my large co-op community had [...]
A new book mysteriously showed up in my mailbox a few weeks ago from Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Love Them to Death: Turning Invasive Plants into Local Economic Opportunities is [...]
Trees and forests are always subject to political winds of change, whether they’re blowing from the left or from the right. This time, efforts to improve urban tree cover are [...]
Rose and I were in Miami in late February. It had been 20 years since we’d last visited the Magic City. On the drive to nearby Key Biscayne, and [...]
Examples like this would make Pollinator Partnership's training more translatable to home gardens. UPDATE: I received this email from Pollinator Partnership:My apologies that the Pollinator Steward Certification program [...]
Many years ago I discovered Little Sparta. And excitement overtook me. I realised that a garden could be a form of expression. That it can tell a story, express feelings, [...]
There, fixed it! Here's another one. Or it could be fixed with just two words: "Where possible....." If only there were room for 2-3 more words in this ubiquitous meme, [...]
