Nature, wildlife, and how gardening affects the environment.
As proprietor of “Indigenous Ingenuities,” a landscape design, install, and maintenance firm in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, Matthew Benzie pursues a multi-pronged program for greening his community. He uses organic products for [...]
John Prine. Photo: Oh Boy Records. The singer-songwriter John Prine doesn’t have anything to do with the hungry spotted lanternfly, but bear with me. Spotted lanternfly is not [...]
In my quest for examples of low-maintenance, more eco-friendly civic landscapes, two libraries near me were recommended by Scott Aker, head of gardens at the National Arboretum and a former resident [...]
Photo credit: U.S. Botanic Garden Hey, remember the Sustainable Sites Initiative? It's the project of the U.S. Botanic Garden, the Lady Bird Johnson Center and the American Society of [...]
My wife – who is the mower of lawns in our partnership – has taken to mowing around any wildflowers she encounters. As a result, our rather sparse fescue lawn [...]
Benjamin Vogt and I began an email exchange last March after I read his very interesting A New Garden Ethic: Cultivating Defiant Compassion for an Uncertain Future.
If there was a 12-step program for gardeners like me, I would begin each session of course by introducing myself to the room and then admit to my addiction: I [...]
Apparently I am not supposed to trust my own experiences. I’ve had lawns at every house I’ve inhabited, which has been several over my more than half century above the [...]
Ringneck Marsh, Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge (photo by M. Davis) Here’s a list that I hope future federal administrations and elected officials will keep in mind. It’s the [...]
The weekend before last I had the pleasure of meeting Heather Holm, a great gardener and leading advocate for pollinators from Minneapolis. She has self-published two very useful (and attractive) [...]
Students competing in the 2015 fair We who worry and wonder about our social-media-obsessed youth and the future of horticulture found some relief at a recent gathering of [...]
It’s called the ‘Mostoller Wild Goose’ bean. Sarah Mostoller found the first seeds in the crop of a wild goose that her son had shot in a mill race in [...]
