Plants we love, hate, or just have something to say about.
Dead Horse Gap in Prospect, KY. Rose and I are lying low in Salvisa, but we drive to Louisville once a week for grocery shopping at the Dirty [...]
We bought our first house in 1986. Not long afterwards, we met the neighbor from three doors down. His name was Ethan Becker. His grandmother and mother wrote the first [...]
The latest in the on-going correspondence between Marianne Willburn and Scott Beuerlein. 6 March 2020 Lovettsville, VA Dear Scott, I am grateful to digital correspondence in that I cannot catch [...]
Lurie Gardens, Chicago If one more person asks me if I have heard of or read books by Doug Tallamy, I’ll …. Well, I guess I won't really [...]
Arborvitaes failing to screen my view of the parking lot. When I wrote last September that "I hate my arborvitaes" because several of them DIED during a drought [...]
Azaleas as Mother Nature intended. I've held off ranting about the examples of sheared shrubs that I see in my town, but no more. In my defense, I'm [...]
I love my new monstera but not enough to take a selfie with it. The question was staring at me from my Facebook feed, in the form of [...]
But. Unsurprisingly, that is the opposite of what many gardeners want. After paying scant attention to this trend as talk of it reached me last year, I finally took the [...]
Be realistic, demand the impossible. Che Guevara I am waging war against frustration, and impatience is an obstacle. My struggle may take two or three years before there is a [...]
This black mondo brings attention to subtly variegated plants. Groundcovers are often suggested as solutions for sites where turfgrass won’t grow, or for places that are difficult to [...]
Serviceberry, Boston ivy and hydrangea are at their best in fall here. And there are many, many other great choices. “What’s this beautiful shrub?!” was the question on [...]
The car was invented 135 years ago, and all that time we have needed a place to put them when we run into the grocery or the bank. Trouble is, [...]
