“Public Gardens” includes public spaces, corporate spaces – anything but home gardens.
Janet Draper at the Mary Livingston Ripley Garden. Rare is the circus that has the extraordinary talent or the vast experience of someone like Janet Draper. This dynamo [...]
Here's a blog post I wrote for general-interest blogs, about an easy new way to see the sights around the National Mall . It's illustrated with images of the gardens [...]
I'm happy to see that (some) rose gardens are looking better these days, thanks to their good-looking and super-performing groundcovers. To my eyes, they cover all sorts of rosebush deficiencies [...]
The 446-acre treasure in an unloved part of Washington, D.C. that is the National Arboretum has seemed down on its luck these last few years. It had a short-term director (not [...]
Yesterday was the perfect day to visit Dumbarton Oaks, the Beatrix Farrand-designed garden and research facility in DC's Georgetown neighborhood. Cherry trees and magnolias were still blooming, under blue skies. [...]
An agave blossom festooned with pom poms thrusts itself into the sky above The Huntington Desert Garden A person’s relationship with a garden can be one of the [...]
Bill McLaughlin As a regular visitor to the U.S. Botanic Garden, I've come to love its spacious Regional Garden very gradually since installation was completed in the fall [...]
I first visited and fell in love with the Scott Arboretum, covering the entire campus of Swarthmore College, back in 2008 when I visited for a talk on lawn alternatives. I finally [...]
I spent a sublime morning this week at the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay, in the beautiful State of Maryland. Outside the Visitor's [...]
For decades,Washingtonians have known about a Marc Chagall mosaic in the back garden of a private residence in Georgetown and have strained to see mere glimpses of it from over [...]
Image from the Archive of American Gardens I'm not sure I totally grasp the content of the Smithsonian's Archive of American Gardens but here's what I gather so [...]
Richard Benfield is gradually infiltrating this blog, one Ranter at a time. He's the Central State Connecticut U. geography professor named the world's leading authority on garden tourism - and [...]
