“Public Gardens” includes public spaces, corporate spaces – anything but home gardens.
Guest Rant by Layanee DeMerchant I confess; I'm caught up in the romance and intrigue of the PBS series, "Downton Abbey." I'm enjoying the fashion, the opulence and the stunning [...]
Everyone loves the Smithsonian museums on D.C.'s National Mall, but gardener-tourists also love their gardens. Here's a sampling from mid-October, when I particularly admired (and will copy!) their use of [...]
There's one garden in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico that's known to residents and visitors alike and it's "El Jardin" right in the center of the Colonial city. What's interesting [...]
I'm back home after a whirlwind visit to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico for my niece's wedding and my bags are still unpacked, but my photos are fully loaded and [...]
For those of you who haven’t had a chance to visit the High Line yet, I’m sorry to have to tell you that it’s over. Already. At least according to [...]
A Guest Rant by Mary Gray Observe, if you will, your local public school. Not the inside. No, take a look at what’s going on outside -- on the school [...]
Normal spring in the Ripley Garden I'm sorry to report that the inaugural news out of Washington, D.C. isn't ALL good, at least in the gardening department. Remember [...]
By Guest Ranter Susan Leigh Tomlinson. In this excerpt from "Pentimento", published in the literary journal Isotope, Susan describes her complicated relationship with the land around Lubbock, Texas, known locally [...]
A green mayor? Of Niagara Falls, N.Y.? For those who know the history of mob wars, political corruption, industrial decline, and chemical pollution associated with this city, such a phrase [...]
The Mary Livingston Ripley Garden is tucked inconspicuously between two Smithsonian Institution buildings on the National Mall. Created by architect Hugh Newell Jacobsen in the 1980s, it's a serpentine series [...]
