Plants we love, hate, or just have something to say about.
A day devoted to spoiling people you love is okay with me, regardless of its Hallmark stigma and general aura of cliché. Just like the extra information at the public [...]
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 [...]
