“Public Gardens” includes public spaces, corporate spaces – anything but home gardens.
A while back I ranted about the inclusion of my alma mater, Ohio's Oberlin College, in its list of Most Beautiful College Campuses. So let's pause and ask what makes [...]
Easter weekend was a great day to visit the now-finally-fully-open National Arboretum and snap some spring sunshine for you guys. It's just a 15-minute drive from my house, and I [...]
In many places all over the country, the garden tour season is beckoning. If you’re a subscriber to this site you’ve most likely got your engines revving and already have [...]
The last time I blogged about a visit to the White House Gardens was in 2010 ( photos here) and my last visit was in 2016, when I took the [...]
I visited DC's Tidal Basin on a glorious Tuesday this week, prompted by the forecast and the news that the blossoms had begun their peak period. The Cherry Blossom Festival [...]
Here I am with another call-to-action post. This time, it’s for the Garden Bloggers Fling, held this year in Madison, Wisconsin, June 23–26. (Check out the link; there's plenty of [...]
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 [...]
