“Public Gardens” includes public spaces, corporate spaces – anything but home gardens.
Edith Eddleman and the Jekyll Border at the J.C. Raulston Arboretum. I arrived in Raleigh a few days before last week’s Perennial Plant Association (PPA) Symposium. I checked [...]
I’ve been haunting cemeteries ever since my teenaged years. Not literally – I leave that to the dear departed. But I’ve always liked the peaceful and nostalgic aspect of old [...]
Most gardeners after about 40 years in the asparagus patch begin to at least consider downsizing. You know, cutting back to only three-quarters of an acre of weeds, fewer disease-plagued [...]
Almost on a whim I drove to Ithaca to attend the Children and Youth Garden Symposium being hosted by Cornell (with the American Horticultural Society), and I'm glad I did. [...]
Rose and I traveled to England early this month with Story May Lowe, our 11-year-old granddaughter. To Story, I am known as Babu a name I inherited. My grandfather was [...]
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 [...]
