Our gardens, our guest ranters’ gardens, and other people’s home gardens.
I've been showing you dozens of photos tagged for different features (like benches or garden art) from 25 years of visiting and photographing gardens. This next batch of images from [...]
My next tranche of tagged photos from my 20+ years of garden visits are of ponds, both private and public. By definition, ponds don't have hard constructed edges - and [...]
I'm a nut for benches. For seating of any kind, but especially benches, like the one above I've had since 1986, when I surprised myself by paying $350 for it. [...]
Some colorful homes that caught my eye. Clockwise from upper left: Oakland, CA; Long Island, NY; Austin, TX; and two in Takoma Park, MD. After all these years [...]
Ultimately, it was amazing how quickly things were almost finished and I was out of the cold. Nothing like the satisfaction of a job adequately done, especially knowing it happened with such ruthless and reckless efficiency.
No one likes being "taken for granted." I’ve seen that expression misspelled as “taken for granite.” Jarring at first, but honestly, not so wrong. The things you’re most likely to [...]
Anyone else press ever pause on shows or movies when a residential landscape is on the screen? Well, I do it even when it interrupts the next plot reveal in [...]
Colors are provided by 4 oakleaf hydrangeas, 2 Japanese maples, 3 amsonia hubrichtii and 1 redbud. You know how you suddenly realize the colors in your garden are [...]
Next year everything in the garden will be so much better! Next year the Clerodendrum Bungei will have spread more and more in the border with the Telekia speciosa : [...]
This time of year, especially in a year like this, a lot of people are looking at their plants and asking, “Is it dead?” It’s a pretty good question, because, [...]
and yes, it came with a disaster or two. The yew hedges grew and the issue arose - what would we fill the spaces that they gave us with? [...]
Though once we may have travelled across the globe and back, there comes a time when we slip the passport into a drawer and our daily path shrinks to the [...]
