“Public Gardens” includes public spaces, corporate spaces – anything but home gardens.
Five years after my first visit to the not-yet-open Delaware Botanic Garden (which I blogged about here) I returned recently to be utterly wow'd by its progress and the breadth [...]
There’s no replicating the beautiful Piet Oudolf-designed gardens and sophisticated ambiance of New York’s iconic elevated park, but municipalities throughout the world have been inspired by what such a scenic [...]
Rose and I recently went out for our first movie in a long time. We picked a good one. “Gardens are good for the soul…They make you feel like your [...]
Earlier this year I posted that I "couldn't wait!" until the 2021 opening of the Little Island floating in the Hudson River on New York City's West Side. After seeing [...]
Could the definition of “garden” be expanded to include a trail system through public land? Public and private gardens each have features that lend an individual touch. I think of [...]
I've blogged about tending my five adopted gardens, which tending I'm earnestly trying to reduce by making the gardens as low-maintenance as possible. In some instances there are actual maintenance [...]
Guest post by S. B. Julian If you want a bit of life, go to the cemetery. You'll never be alone there, and I'm not talking about “dem bones dem [...]
Nowhere in the country has the existence of statues honoring the Confederacy been more hotly debated than in the former capital itself - Richmond, Virginia, with its iconic statues along [...]
A week ago Rose and I checked into the Bellagio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas for one night. We were on our way the next day to visit our [...]
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 [...]
