Our critiques of books, movies, anything we have an opinion about.
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? [...]
Approach to the Pavilions. Photo credit: Iwan Baan, Glenstone Museum The DC area's biggest art news in 2018 was by all accounts the opening of a much-expanded contemporary art museum [...]
Remedy, by Joan Linder, located in Roswell Park Cancer Institute Can beautiful images of nature promote healing? Even healing from cancer? There is a British university study that [...]
Louise Jones, Wildflowers for Buffalo Recently, several Facebook friends have issued pleas for “palate cleansing” posts, preferably containing puppies and other cute animals or anything innocently funny or [...]
Guest Post by Constance Casey Meeting Eleanor Perenyi in print was like having someone understand and appreciate my toil, and relieving me of guilt for failures. In gardening, anyway. A [...]
In my quest for examples of low-maintenance, more eco-friendly civic landscapes, two libraries near me were recommended by Scott Aker, head of gardens at the National Arboretum and a former resident [...]
Help! My town really could use some examples of alternatives to bedding annuals for its civic landscapes, alternatives that are more sustainable and better-looking to the modern eye. (I know, [...]
We’ll start here. When you look at any suburban and most urban neighborhoods, what do you see? If asked to describe it as an ecosystem, what would you say? Invariably, [...]
I know some people hate this; I can see it in their faces. I was just reading about visitors to Sequoia National Park and Yellowstone leaving 1 star [...]
The documentary Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf opens with Oudolf pulling out colored pens and drawing, with his left hand, bright squiggles, slashes, curlicues and abbreviated Latin plant [...]
When next-door neighbors combine their front gardens - before and after. Good news! England's beloved gardening guru Monty Don is now streaming on Netflix with his make-over show [...]
Though not a big theater-goer, I HAD to see the comedy "Native Gardens" when it played in DC because it's about next-door neighbors representing different demographics and attitudes toward gardening. I'll admit [...]
