Our gardens, our guest ranters’ gardens, and other people’s home gardens.
Before I get to the confessions, a short tour of the four fabulous DC-area gardens open to the public through the Garden Conservancy's Open Gardens Program. (And thanks to local [...]
I confess: I keep a lawn. Call me heathen. I know lawns are environmentally suspect, but mine doesn't ask for much. I've applied nothing from the periodic table that screams [...]
It's time for an update on my courtyard garden. The thrill of saying that hasn't dimmed after a year, and I imagine I will still be delighted about it if [...]
I'm home from visiting Pittsburgh, where I attended the big Garden Writers Symposium, and thankfully I returned with a few photos to post here. (After posting here for eight years this [...]
Part of the fun of creating a garden is trying unfamiliar plants, like this silver-leaved horehound (Marrubium rotundifolium) mingling with winecups (the red-purple blooming Callirhoe involucrata, an old favorite) [...]
Robyn Brown, a Nashville buddy and talented gardener, told me last week that her garden is under siege by armadillos. I was all ears. The nine-banded armadillos are rooting [...]
Landscape architect/blogger Thomas Rainer is one of my favorite designers, something I may have mentioned before on this blog. Gardenblogger Margaret Roach is a Rainer fan, too. She sought him out for [...]
Happy Independence Day, Americans! Have fun, stay safe, et cetera. Now on to our topic - flags in the garden and their impact on others. Take my neighbor's Old Glory [...]
Last Saturday it suddenly occurred to me that after weeks of moving plants around and the construction of a privacy screen, my garden was finally looking good. And it would stay [...]
Kurt Bluemel, Panicum Warrior Sorry to deliver sad news. Kurt Bluemel Der Gras König -- The King of Grasses -- died yesterday evening after a brief illness. The [...]
Last weekend I returned to my former home town, Takoma Park, MD, for their spring tour and left with one big take-away - that good-looking gardens are easier to achieve [...]
As the garden wakes up, I find I spend more time in that stock-still, mesmerized state that, let's face it, is the point of all this garden work. Though planting, [...]
