“Public Gardens” includes public spaces, corporate spaces – anything but home gardens.
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 [...]
For decades,Washingtonians have known about a Marc Chagall mosaic in the back garden of a private residence in Georgetown and have strained to see mere glimpses of it from over [...]
Image from the Archive of American Gardens I'm not sure I totally grasp the content of the Smithsonian's Archive of American Gardens but here's what I gather so [...]
Richard Benfield is gradually infiltrating this blog, one Ranter at a time. He's the Central State Connecticut U. geography professor named the world's leading authority on garden tourism - and [...]
Competition co-chairs Alice Bucher and Don Slater at the big show. With the theme of Articulture - the interpretation of art through horticulture - this year's Philadelphia Flower [...]
In a suburban home garden, a young black walnut tree (left) and a sour cherry (right) tower above a blooming patch of common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca). Many urban gardeners [...]
I recently ventured to Virginia to a place I’d never been before – the Pentagon Memorial to the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attack. Its design by two young architects [...]
Names venerating 73 botanists are inscribed in the frieze and below the windows of BBG's landmarked Laboratory Admin building, built from 1912 to 1917. Photo by Chris Kreussling (Flatbush [...]
