“Public Gardens” includes public spaces, corporate spaces – anything but home gardens.
Photo courtesy Oehme van Sweden I have two bones to pick about gardens being destroyed or co-opted to honor the dead. Yes, I'm going there. First, a national [...]
The highlight of a great week in garden events for me was the book launch party at Chanticleer Garden, hands down, for the chance to see the garden again (my [...]
Prairie perennials Did you know that this is the International Year of Soils? Me, neither, until I saw an exhibit about the benefits of perennial crops over annual crops, [...]
Janet Draper at the Mary Livingston Ripley Garden. Rare is the circus that has the extraordinary talent or the vast experience of someone like Janet Draper. This dynamo [...]
Here's a blog post I wrote for general-interest blogs, about an easy new way to see the sights around the National Mall . It's illustrated with images of the gardens [...]
I'm happy to see that (some) rose gardens are looking better these days, thanks to their good-looking and super-performing groundcovers. To my eyes, they cover all sorts of rosebush deficiencies [...]
The 446-acre treasure in an unloved part of Washington, D.C. that is the National Arboretum has seemed down on its luck these last few years. It had a short-term director (not [...]
Yesterday was the perfect day to visit Dumbarton Oaks, the Beatrix Farrand-designed garden and research facility in DC's Georgetown neighborhood. Cherry trees and magnolias were still blooming, under blue skies. [...]
An agave blossom festooned with pom poms thrusts itself into the sky above The Huntington Desert Garden A person’s relationship with a garden can be one of the [...]
Bill McLaughlin As a regular visitor to the U.S. Botanic Garden, I've come to love its spacious Regional Garden very gradually since installation was completed in the fall [...]
I first visited and fell in love with the Scott Arboretum, covering the entire campus of Swarthmore College, back in 2008 when I visited for a talk on lawn alternatives. I finally [...]
I spent a sublime morning this week at the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay, in the beautiful State of Maryland. Outside the Visitor's [...]
