Nature, wildlife, and how gardening affects the environment.
Somewhere near the bottom of every writer's artistic license, a clever wordsmith will find the following recommendation: Monty Don "Comically exaggerating the position of one's opponent is encouraged [...]
The car was invented 135 years ago, and all that time we have needed a place to put them when we run into the grocery or the bank. Trouble is, [...]
Temple Gardens, Salt Lake City As soon as I arrived in Salt Lake City for the national conference of garden communicators last month I heard from multiple sources [...]
Chickadee photo by Jay Burney Maybe I’m the only one who saw the recent articles and posts detailing a shocking loss in the North American bird population. Somehow, [...]
Louisville Climate Strike There were student-led Global Climate Strikes all over the world last Friday, inspired by the lovable 16-year old Greta Thunberg. An estimated two hundred people [...]
Tree saps are head over heels for red maples... Natalie Jeremijenko's "Tree Logic" at Mass MoCa, North Adams, MA. Hayly Fisher is a barista. She waters humble sidewalk [...]
Facebook has its negatives, but does offer insights. Without running a formal poll complete with statistical analysis, you get a feel for the general population’s reactions to certain things. Some [...]
I haven’t spent so much per ounce for plant material since I was a miscreant teenager decades ago. These three bags of seeds from Prairie Nursery in Westfield, Wisconsin, however, [...]
Did you know that Washington, D.C., with 1.2 million square feet of green roofs as of 2014, won bragging rights as the greenest U.S. city? No, really. (Source: EcoWatch.) If [...]
A reader of Susan Harris’ recent post about the display of Synlawn synthetic grass at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. asked about the relative environmental merits of synthetic [...]
You can’t be a gardener these days, not a serious gardener, and not notice some shifts in the climate. These vary with the region, but it’s safe to say that in [...]
From left, Jon Sander, Matthew Partain, and Paul Tukey. When I showed you Glenstone in Winter last December I promised return visits throughout the year. Well, last week [...]
