Our gardens, our guest ranters’ gardens, and other people’s home gardens.
First spring - in 2012. When I moved to a townhouse with townhouse-size front and back yards, I loved starting new in a small space. And boy, was [...]
Did you catch the news about a native-plant gardener on Long Island fined $2,000 because her front yard was too wild-looking? Here's the story in the New York Post, which prompted [...]
“We don’t have anything like this.” That’s one of the most frequent comments I hear when visitors from out of state come through my garden (entrance shown above) during Garden [...]
I last visited Seattle back in 2011 for the Gardenblogger Fling. We stayed in the University District and hung out among some exuberant landscaping at University Village, which wows with [...]
Unfortunately, for me, it’s easier to feel bad about my garden than good. Rather than enjoy what’s right, I have trained myself to look for what’s wrong. Every walkthrough, I’m [...]
From left, my former lawnless back yard on the cover of Evelyn Hadden's wonderful book - sadly, now out of print - and my former lawnless front yard in [...]
Brown plants, orange flowers, and hot pink in the Edwards Forkner garden. Playing with color in the landscape is my favorite way to garden. I call myself a [...]
This is your (and my) reminder to see as many Garden Conservancy Open Days as possible this year! I recently mentioned the Garden Conservancy because I attended the premiere of [...]
Millie Ellis, the quintessential avant-gardener When Mildred Rose Ellis was a girl growing up in the Village of Batavia, Ohio, her family lived in an old schoolhouse. [...]
So yeah, it's been a pretty shitty month with a foot of snow, an enduring icy landscape, California wildfires and dealing with RSV virus, which produces endless, metallic, lung-rattling coughs [...]
This has been a rather stormy weekend, with some parts of the UK seeing winds up to 85mph. Compared to the hurricanes that batter parts of the US these winds [...]
While I was scrolling through the Library of Congress's old photos in search of WPA workers (for this post), I came across 1942 images of people working in my town's [...]
