“Public Gardens” includes public spaces, corporate spaces – anything but home gardens.
These chairs I painted last fall just HAPPEN to match the azaleas behind them. Believe me, I didn't even consider the azaleas when I chose the paint color. [...]
Yellow Island I am, floristically speaking, a sybarite. Though I will attempt to enjoy the occasional long weekend at an Oberoi or Four Seasons, especially so as the [...]
A guest rant by Kelly Baldry Our towns and cities are made up of thousands of individuals, many of whom will never pay to visit a garden, and perhaps have [...]
I reported here last October that the American Horticultural Society had decided to sell its historic River Farm headquarters, and mentioned some blowback from the community. Well! Since then the [...]
This week I cycled around downtown Washington and stopped to see my favorite garden there - the Smithsonian's Ripley Garden, created and maintained by Janet Draper. (Janet's profiled and mentioned [...]
Even the name makes me smile. And now I am on a mission to document a floricycle at every stage of its development. In 2019, the final step in [...]
Yes, it's spring but I'm still waiting for the big emotional lift I get from BLOOMS, the great masses of them that thrill me every spring and I know will [...]
This is as close as I could get to the U.S. Botanic Garden today, with all of it now fenced in and heavily guarded. You can barely see the white [...]
Breaking a 191-year-old tradition—necessitated by the current pandemic but long overdue in this gardener’s opinion—the Philadelphia Flower Show (PFS, shown above)) will, this year, be held outside. It would seem [...]
When a friend spotted this image in the Secret NYCC Instagram feed, she alerted me immediately because - I mean my God! What IS it? Well, it's a 2.4-acre floating [...]
Every year about this time, or maybe later, I brashly state my lack of interest in winter interest, at least as far as my own garden goes. That’s still true. [...]
Sept 2020 - Holly Cooper in Yew Dell's holly allée. (Robin Cooper photo.) Holly Cooper comes by her name naturally. Theodore Klein, a nurseryman and plant collector, was [...]
