Our gardens, our guest ranters’ gardens, and other people’s home gardens.
Barbara Ellis is a garden book editor and author, most recently of the terrific Chesapeake Gardening and Landscaping (from UNC Press, with Atkins Arboretum), and she blogs at Eastern Shore [...]
This week I have been mourning the passing of a friend who lost her battle with cancer. On learning the news yesterday evening, I went out into my garden and [...]
A hummingbird visits a patch of sunset hyssop (Agastache rupestris) in my courtyard garden. One of the big perks of moving to the west has been an increase [...]
Garden Walk Buffalo" and “© D. Zinteck, Photographics 2 As Garden Walk Buffalo approaches, I have already been participating in the Open Garden program, helping promote the other [...]
Garden touring season has given way to what I’m learning to treat as a second dormant period here in the high desert: the extreme heat of midsummer. And how convenient [...]
My favorites of all the gardens we saw on the Gardenblogger Fling in Toronto weren't grand - anything but. They were the small funky ones on the just-offshore islands known collectively as Toronto Islands, which [...]
I recently attended the Georgetown Garden Tour in DC's toniest neighborhood to find out how the other half gardens spends money on their yards, and naturally I have some comments [...]
It would be a stretch to call our reconstituted former hay field a prairie. What we have is a beautiful contrivance—a make-believe prairie. July 1, 2014 Contrary to [...]
Spring is always a whirlwind. Here are some things I've been doing lately in my 2-year-old garden. Feeling grateful and extremely lucky that the previous owner of this land planted [...]
Guest Rant by Lori Hawkins Just as Dante identified the seven deadly sins in his Inferno, so we will explore the cardinal sins of the landscaping world. Lust, Gluttony, Greed, [...]
Mullein is one of my favorite plants to grow because it attracts seed-eating birds, including chickadees and downy woodpeckers, in winter. It also makes dramatic natural sculptures. Winter [...]
Why is it that, after a snowfall, the landscape looks so much better, even if nothing has changed underneath? Snow offers the opportunity to view your garden with new perspective [...]
