Our gardens, our guest ranters’ gardens, and other people’s home gardens.
Last week I shared photos of Colston Burrell's garden near Charlottesville, Va. and promised to show off two amazing gardens in that historic city. Here ya go! The Garden of [...]
Readers may recognize Colston Burrell as the garden designer, writer and speaker, perhaps best known for his knowledge of plants that are native to Bird Hill, his garden on a [...]
There are things you've done right out there. Enjoy them. Sure, they were--in years past--probably done late, in haste, and at the expense of an enjoyable garden experience, but we can't keep banking gardening joy for some far off time. Spend some of it today.
It seems two of us have been on holiday. Rather a contrast - one of us to the desert, and me to -- Chipping Campden. Which is just about as [...]
Mother Nature’s emissary, winter storm Elliott, swept through the US bringing rapidly plummeting temperatures and snow Dec 22-23rd. Here in Louisville, it went from 55F in the evening, to -5F [...]
If there’s one thing which obsesses most gardeners it’s filling up every available space in the garden. Preferably in layers. When I was a novice Christopher Lloyd terrified me [...]
I don't find brown, lifeless plants particularly interesting. Many don't have any notable form or shape. They're just dead things sticking up with maybe some seeds or pods at the [...]
Happy Christmas everyone!!! Though I am so sorry to hear about your weather. Now: Gardens take a long time to make. And most people’s garden are probably inherited, because we [...]
It seemed only natural to place my planted-up containers ON the patios in my garden, as seen in this photo of my front yard. But there were problems with this [...]
Great Foliage in My Garden Fothergilla in my garden, late October. In July I showed off the 16 native plants that MAKE my garden, but excluded my Fothergilla [...]
Have you noticed that when visiting a garden or even wandering through your own, what jumps out at you are the flaws? Like the errant piece of trash or the [...]
I haven't mentioned it until now - because I wasn't sure of success - but I can now confess that I nominated one of my adopted gardens for a county [...]
