Nature, wildlife, and how gardening affects the environment.
If you have ever donated money to a cause or even just signed an on-line petition, I’m sure that your inbox, like mine, is flooded with email solicitations. Mine mainly [...]
Are they here yet? Are they here yet? Reblooming 'Major Wheeler' coral honeysuckle provides hummingbird attracting flowers from very early spring to very late in fall. [...]
Lillian Russell. Photo credit: Pittsburgh City Paper Feathers might not have been ruffled if actress Lillian Russell, and other early 20thcentury fashonistas, had not sashayed around in hats [...]
When the snow gets this high, it's hard to maintain the 4-foot rule. Many people I know find all kinds of reasons not to feed birds in winter. [...]
Few things in gardening are as polarizing as opinions about lawns. On the one hand, the position of the mainstream turf and landscaping industry is to continue America’s enormous investment [...]
Dear Kim, I need your help. I am impressed that a reality television star, like you, with star status as big as the President’s (I mean HUGE), can walk into [...]
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.
