“Public Gardens” includes public spaces, corporate spaces – anything but home gardens.
Did you know that Washington, D.C., with 1.2 million square feet of green roofs as of 2014, won bragging rights as the greenest U.S. city? No, really. (Source: EcoWatch.) If [...]
Buffalo's Darwin Martin Complex, designed and built by Frank Lloyd Wright, no longer needs any fixing up. Three buildings (Martin House, Barton House, Gardener’s Cottage) have been completely restored and [...]
I’ll never consider attempting a rock garden again. Not after visiting the superb spaces of Denver, Fort Collins, and Boulder, all part of a recent garden bloggers’ trip that some [...]
I go back a long way with the award-winning Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest. My first experiences at Bernheim were grade school bus trips to the nature center in the [...]
From left, Jon Sander, Matthew Partain, and Paul Tukey. When I showed you Glenstone in Winter last December I promised return visits throughout the year. Well, last week [...]
Photo credit: Tucson Botanical Gardens So there we were at the Tucson Botanical Gardens 1,800 miles from our house and still feeling right at home. The good botanical gardens [...]
As threatened promised, I'm blogging the History of Landscape course I'm taking at the University of Maryland, and here's my first post. The (fabulous) teacher I'll be quoting is Caren Yglesias. Interestingly [...]
Approach to the Pavilions. Photo credit: Iwan Baan, Glenstone Museum The DC area's biggest art news in 2018 was by all accounts the opening of a much-expanded contemporary art museum [...]
This garden on the campus of the University of Maryland isn't about prettifying the campus, though it IS an improvement. It's about teaching students how to grow food, manage stormwater [...]
This time of year, visitors entering the U.S. Botanic Garden get this rather somber view of the U.S. Capitol across the street. Inside, from now until New Year's Day, the [...]
I first visited the High Line - New York's famous elevated park along an abandoned railroad track - in 2013 when it was new and incomplete but already stunning, especially in [...]
