“Public Gardens” includes public spaces, corporate spaces – anything but home gardens.
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 [...]
Butchart's Sunken Garden Serious gardeners love to hate Butchart Gardens, Canada's most famous public garden, and I'll cop to being one of the haters. It's blindingly colorful and the very [...]
I had, when I studied horticulture back in the 1970’s, the good fortune to be exposed to the last generation of a great gardening tradition. At the New York Botanical [...]
I returned last week to the U.S. Botanic Garden for another lesson in plant morphology, but this one was a bit sexier than the foliage talk I posted about here. This [...]
UPDATED 1/21/21: This is the bike path now-President Biden has been seen riding along, with Secret Service officers. The path is very close to the Bidens' summer home in Rehoboth [...]
I'll say one thing for this year's Philadelphia Flower Show - good for the PHS for choosing national parks as the theme, in celebration of the National Park Service's 100th anniversary. [...]
Guest rant by Nancy J. Parisi Right now, sprinkled throughout sections of vast Death Valley National Park, are swaths of color standing out from the usual palette of faded greens, [...]
Vlinderhof If I ever go on a European garden tour, I'll choose one that features gardens that are interesting to American gardeners and designers and about gardening today, [...]
