Our critiques of books, movies, anything we have an opinion about.
Allan Armitage has been at the center of perennials for over fifty years. He is tireless, passionate, knowledgeable, affable, well-liked, been everywhere, knows everyone, and, between his academic career, speaking schedule, and writing, no one else is anywhere as uniquely positioned to be the black hole of the perennial universe.
So, it’s come to this. As a nation, we are so starved for American garden programming that we are willing to accept that a woman worth over $620 million dollars, [...]
I had so completely tuned out HGTV as a source of gardening instruction or inspiration that I totally missed the July 31 premier of their Martha Stewart show "Martha Knows [...]
I don’t remember how old I was when my father helped me start a stamp collection. Maybe six? My father was a foreign news editor for Newsweek magazine and as [...]
UPDATE: We have a winner! It's Liz Genovese, with this comment (chosen at random): "Remember the days when having the most correct and most beautiful place settings was a thing? [...]
Is there any reason to welcome chaos? It is the inevitable balance to stagnant order. In the Grand Garden, chaos is vitally necessary for life to thrive. Mary Vaananen joins [...]
Um, no it's not! For some tension-releasing laughs (I'm getting tired of funny animal videos myself), I'm sharing some truly ridiculous gardens I found on a bogus gardening [...]
Cue the swelling music, and then … Huge! Magnificent! Spectacular! Astonishing! Extraaaooordinary! Count on hearing those superlatives and more over the course of Monty Don’s three-part American Gardens, which aired [...]
I was researching a blog post about my local library, digging deep into its online resources, and came upon something I associate with a high price tag - Great Courses. [...]
If you come to DC any time over the next two years, I recommend visiting this magical stickwork piece called "Oh Say Can You See" by Patrick Dougherty, that just [...]
Pergolas in Daybreak, UT, outside Salt Lake City. A pergola in Maryland I saw way too much water-sucking landscaping when I was in Salt Lake City, [...]
Eudora with Chestina Welty. Photo by Rollie McKenna, courtesy of Eudora Welty, LLC." Photo of a young Eudora by Tom Beck courtesy of Mississippi Department of Archives [...]
