Our critiques of books, movies, anything we have an opinion about.
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 [...]
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 [...]
