Our critiques of books, movies, anything we have an opinion about.
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 [...]
I have a back-to-school post! Readers may remember my posts about the History of Landscape course I took last semester at the University of Maryland (as a free-tuition retiree – [...]
I’ve been reading book from 2018 that just recently appeared as a paperback, The Food Explorer by Daniel Stone. It’s a best-selling biography of one of the great plant explorers [...]
It had to happen - a book about the Buffalo-Style Gardens that have become the talk of the gardening world, especially among garden writers. And it had to be the work [...]
The Manscaper design/install team starring in "Backyard Envy" Gardeners, especially garden bloggers, have long complained about the dearth of gardening shows on TV, and I had little hope for "Backyard [...]
Here’s a book that raises all kinds of interesting questions. Like: Can a city have its own style of gardening? Assuming that it can, how does such a style arise? [...]
