“Public Gardens” includes public spaces, corporate spaces – anything but home gardens.
This week I cycled around downtown Washington and stopped to see my favorite garden there - the Smithsonian's Ripley Garden, created and maintained by Janet Draper. (Janet's profiled and mentioned [...]
Even the name makes me smile. And now I am on a mission to document a floricycle at every stage of its development. In 2019, the final step in [...]
Yes, it's spring but I'm still waiting for the big emotional lift I get from BLOOMS, the great masses of them that thrill me every spring and I know will [...]
This is as close as I could get to the U.S. Botanic Garden today, with all of it now fenced in and heavily guarded. You can barely see the white [...]
Breaking a 191-year-old tradition—necessitated by the current pandemic but long overdue in this gardener’s opinion—the Philadelphia Flower Show (PFS, shown above) will, this year, be held outside. It would seem [...]
When a friend spotted this image in the Secret NYCC Instagram feed, she alerted me immediately because - I mean my God! What IS it? Well, it's a 2.4-acre floating [...]
Every year about this time, or maybe later, I brashly state my lack of interest in winter interest, at least as far as my own garden goes. That’s still true. [...]
Sept 2020 - Holly Cooper in Yew Dell's holly allée. (Robin Cooper photo.) Holly Cooper comes by her name naturally. Theodore Klein, a nurseryman and plant collector, was [...]
I couldn't resist clicking on "Conde Nest Traveler's 50 Most Beautiful College Campuses in America" listicle when it came across my Facebook feed and scrolling through the famously beautiful campuses like [...]
I come to praise a public garden in the Maryland suburbs of D.C. for helping thousands of locals get outdoors in nature, move their bodies and feel a little saner [...]
River Farm, headquarters of the American Horticultural Society First we all read the big news - that the American Horticultural Society, in order to survive financially, has decided [...]
Almost no traffic on Pennsylvania Avenue. I hadn't been downtown DC since last year, so with glorious September weather upon us, I was determined to go. But I'm [...]
