“Public Gardens” includes public spaces, corporate spaces – anything but home gardens.
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 [...]
Competition co-chairs Alice Bucher and Don Slater at the big show. With the theme of Articulture - the interpretation of art through horticulture - this year's Philadelphia Flower [...]
In a suburban home garden, a young black walnut tree (left) and a sour cherry (right) tower above a blooming patch of common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca). Many urban gardeners [...]
I recently ventured to Virginia to a place I’d never been before – the Pentagon Memorial to the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attack. Its design by two young architects [...]
Names venerating 73 botanists are inscribed in the frieze and below the windows of BBG's landmarked Laboratory Admin building, built from 1912 to 1917. Photo by Chris Kreussling (Flatbush [...]
While I was visiting New York City earlier this month I didn’t JUST visit the High Line. Also on my agenda was the Native Plant Garden at the New York [...]
Last week I finally saw the world-famous High Line Park in NYC and, like everyone with a pulse, I loved it. And unlike some scolds complaining about gentrification and the [...]
Invited to visit Columbus during its really big gardening trade show and then shown a fabulous time in their clean, beautiful city, how could I not write good things about [...]
The Winterthur Garden (okay, and museum and library) in Wilmington, DE is an easy day-trip for me, but I'd never seen it until last month. The reason? I thought it [...]
Photo by Saxon Holt, PhotoBotanic Finally caught up on my sleep after a red-eye into Baltimore, I'm ready to savor my photos and memories from the 6th annual [...]
Tiny Mills End Park in Portland, Oregon There is a friendly dispute going on about who has the smallest…umm…park. That’s a big deal. In the U.S., Portland’s Mill [...]
The memorial to FDR has been a local favorite since it opened in 1997, and yesterday it was the first stop on my cherry blossom tour via bicycle. (You can [...]
