Photo credit: U.S. Botanic Garden Hey, remember the Sustainable Sites Initiative? It's the project of the U.S. Botanic Garden, the Lady Bird Johnson Center and the American Society of [...]
There's nothing like working to improve city landscaping to turn you into a realist, having abandoned what you really want for what's most likely to happen, given the usual constraints [...]
Buttresses and bas-relief sculptures seen behind Knockout roses Of all the historic buildings in my town, my favorite is what's now the Community Center, so it's full of [...]
Cecropiamoth caterpillar at the Wildflower Center More than 90 garden bloggers got together for three days of garden touring in Austin last weekend. It is a return to [...]
Great Dixter's most famous view, by UK Garden Photos I jumped at the chance to hear Fergus Garrett, head gardener at Great Dixter - undoubtedly England's most famous [...]
Rain garden at entrance to the Show What with snow and some winds from hell, it wasn't a great year for the Philadelphia Flower Show, dependent as it [...]
Near Terrapin Point And it wasn’t three years ago either, which was the last time this clickbait appeared on Facebook. But it is pretty damn cold, and frozen [...]
Where: -You would barely imagine that a category 4-5 hurricane had swept past just a few months previously. (Sorry, no Santa pix) -Santa is everywhere, as a culture [...]
This week I visited North Beach, Maryland on the Chesapeake Bay, about 45 minutes from my home. I hadn't been there since the 1980s, when I remember it as rundown [...]
People in my town routinely pass this garden spot as they walk from the parking lot to the town center (appropriately named Roosevelt Center, since the town was built as a [...]
Some people go to the beach to enjoy the ocean. I do that (a bit) but mostly find myself looking at plants, at gardens. So in late May I walked [...]
The ridiculously fit Bill Thomas when I first met him in 2006. Last week I showed off my favorite views in Chanticleer Garden from a recent visit, promising [...]
