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"A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand." Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC – 65 AD) It was a perfect night for [...]
In Susan's back yard, the comfrey is abuzz with bees. My friend Kathy Jentz (writer/editor/podcaster) told me not to miss her podcast interview with landscape architect Thomas Rainer, [...]
Name tags tend to be a royal pain for the person who has to wear one, but they're useful to everyone else. This could be said of plant tags or [...]
I wanted an alpine plant trough garden. First, I fell in love with the plants I had seen at the Philadelphia Flower Show, Wave Hill in Riverdale NY and Stonecrop [...]
A longer version of this article was originally published in Conservation Sense and Nonsense in March of this year and brought to our attention by CSN editor, Mary McAllister. I [...]
I have never been so happy to see seed catalogues land in my mailbox as this year. As they have arrived the past few days and weeks, I’ve started to [...]
Have you noticed that there are people in this world who simply do not care for plants? They may cut down every single tree in their yard, leaving a barren, [...]
Though once we may have travelled across the globe and back, there comes a time when we slip the passport into a drawer and our daily path shrinks to the [...]
Meet Claudio Vazquez, co-owner and -founder with Amanda McClean of Izel Native Plants, seen in D.C. last week outside the Smithsonian's Ripley Garden. On the right, the free Izel t-shirt [...]
At this point in the summer, I’m not yet bringing out the big guns when it comes to the weeds. As the 4th of July holiday reminded us, independence and [...]
Millie Ellis, the quintessential avant-gardener When Mildred Rose Ellis was a girl growing up in the Village of Batavia, Ohio, her family lived in an old schoolhouse. [...]
This topic may be a sensitive one for many readers. As a relatively recently bereaved gardener, I can’t help ruminating on why it has to be so difficult to plant [...]
