Nature, wildlife, and how gardening affects the environment.
For all you pollinator gardeners out there, check out all the blooms still supporting the critters you love in November! They're in the Pollinator Garden on the College Park campus [...]
Despite all the buzz around planting for pollinators and other eco-gardening drives, perhaps the best and easiest ways to positively impact the environment is to simply plant trees. Last [...]
The U.S. presidential election is one long week away. If there is not enough anxiety to go around here on earth, I need to mention the planetary concern that has [...]
Photo by Sam Bahr of me with other tour-goers - professors of entomology and plant sciences - in front of the UMD Pollinator Meadow. Hear me out I [...]
I feel fondly toward a small stretch of a Louisville neighborhood beyond our 1/3-acre lot in Crescent Hill. I walk along the alley behind our house and see respectable, although [...]
Although native plants lend themselves to informal displays such as this combination of paper birch (Betula papyrifera) and Carolina lupines (Thermopsis villosa), the effect can be quite elegant. [...]
Lincoln Smith speaking to members of the Greenbelt-Beltsville Garden Club in his forest garden. Lincoln Smith has been described, by one Washington Post reporter, as a "landscape architect [...]
Next up in my college lawn-class reports: what I learned about clover and alternative grass seed mixes that include flowering plants, and what I would do if I (still) had [...]
When I signed up for the course "Lawns in the Landscape: Environment Hero or Villain?" at the University of Maryland I had suspicions, even after reading this description: "Examination of [...]
Since the launch of "No-Mow Month" campaigns, which experts seem to agree may do more harm than good, I was happy to see a more science-based and realistic meme appear. [...]
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” Wise words from Frances Hodgson Burnett in her much loved novel The Secret Garden. [...]
Salal (Gaulthera shallon) is an often scruffy Northwest native. A few years ago, I didn’t care at all for native plants. I thought they were ugly and boring, [...]
