Plants we love, hate, or just have something to say about.
This is to connect our Southern Indiana farmhouse, built in 1860, to England’s famed RHS Garden Wisley, founded in 1878, to the legendary horticulturist Mike Dirr, his age doesn’t matter, [...]
In my own very biased assessment, my home garden and all my adopted gardens were unqualified successes in 2021, so yay! But I can't say the same for each and [...]
We probably all love hellebores, but some people seem to like them leafy and some people like them naked. And sometimes the plants themselves seem to come kind of in-between. [...]
Fake plants have come a long way over the last few years. There’s a chance that these words issue from the disturbingly hazy standards of my middle age; but though [...]
Perusing Instagram, I came across this post touting a "FANTASTIC list of DC Christmas trees to check out," so of course I set out to do just that. On a [...]
"I don’t give a damn about my bad reputation.” — Joan Jett Joan Jett’s predecessor, legendary rocker, Patti Smith, got pigeonholed as “Godmother of Punk.” Now a respected poet and [...]
Boxwoods: The plant you turn to when you’re out of other desperate and have no other options. Maybe in the next life there will be another choice for deer-proof, shade tolerant, evergreen, can grow anywhere, can be shaped like anything, smells like cat pee.
I'm not especially into Christmas, obviously. I say that because THIS poinsettia and the artificial swag around it are the only holiday decorations in my home, and that's been my [...]
Guest post by Joe Lamp'l Photo: Courtesy of The National Christmas Tree Association Buying an artificial Christmas tree and reusing it for years may seem like a more [...]
I have notebooks filled with scribbled names of plants I’ve seen in gardens, on social media, or heard about from friends. My list of must-have plants runs to 68: a [...]
Entrance to the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum in the National Arboretum in November of 2021. The National Bonsai and Penjing Museum opened in 1976 with a gift of 53 [...]
