“Public Gardens” includes public spaces, corporate spaces – anything but home gardens.
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 [...]
Campus of Princeton University Michael Van Valkenburgh is one of a few hot-shot landscape architects who's known for large, high-visibility projects, like his redesign of Pennsylvania Avenue in [...]
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 [...]
