“Public Gardens” includes public spaces, corporate spaces – anything but home gardens.
Young artists Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe met on a New York City street in 1967. They were newcomers to town—short on cash, hopeful and passionate about art. Robert [...]
Last summer I visited my hometown of Richmond, Virginia especially to see its iconic Monument Avenue without the infamous Confederate statues, and posted what I found here on the Rant. [...]
Suddenly there’s lots more to see and do in the tourist center of D.C., an easy subway ride away for me. And boy, was it ever great to be back [...]
One of the challenges horticulture faces in proving its importance is that it does most of its best work at the subconscious level.
You can thank COVID. When I was at this show last June (Wambui Ippolito’s Etherea is shown above), the few staffers I talked to seemed to indicate they’d be back [...]
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 [...]
